(n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
(n.) A sinew or a tendon.
(n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
(n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
(n.) Audacity; assurance.
(n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
(n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
(v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(2) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(3) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(4) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(5) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(6) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(7) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(8) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(10) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(11) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(12) The ATP content of the cholinergic electromotor nerves of Torpedo marmorata has been measured.
(13) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(14) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(15) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(16) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(17) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(18) However, none of the nerve terminals making synaptic contacts with glomus cells exhibited SP-like immunoreactivity.
(19) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(20) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
Nerveless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of nerves.
(a.) Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(2) HU-P animals resemble nerveless animals in their lack of behavioural responses but they contain about 2% nerve cells.
(3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(4) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(5) Scott Murray Benteke scored a spectacular bicycle kick at Old Trafford, tucked away the most nerveless penalty of the season at Crystal Palace, and was one of only three players to score a winner against Leicester.
(6) Cabaye’s retake to the top corner was nerveless after his first effort was disallowed for encroachment by the young man whose ongoing silliness would soon lead to an early exit.
(7) Just before 7pm, when the Wolverhampton-born gymnast Kristian Thomas landed the final tumble of a highly charged and nerveless routine, the North Greenwich Arena (as we call it for the Games) filled with the kind of national excitement for which it was conceived: Britain's men had won its first team gymnastics medal for exactly a century.
(8) Both a nerveless goalscorer and the hare that made an entire team run behind him.
(9) Accepting a pass from Geremi, who had collected Gabbidon's poor clearance, he hit an angled shot that was deflected by Collins's boot into the path of Crespo, who provided a nerveless finish from close range.
(10) Owen Farrell's nerveless goal-kicking and another Charlie Hodgson charge-down did the job.
(11) Upon hand feeding, some HU-P animals will recover but most will produce nerveless buds.
(12) What little Matic and Mikel let through, John Terry or Gary Cahill were generally managing to mop up, until with one sublime turn and purposeful sprint towards goal, Sterling split the centre-backs and came up with a nerveless finish to give Liverpool a lifeline.
(13) Nerveless animals show broad tentacle distribution patterns with increased means and variances.
(14) His 85th-minute penalty provoked a dispute with Jordan Henderson on the pitch and a rebuke from Steven Gerrard sitting in a television studio, but all that mattered was that it was nerveless, accurate and broke Besiktas’ resilience in the Europa League .
(15) With the half-time substitute Mertens and Eden Hazard finally injecting some urgency, the pair combined on the counterattack and the Napoli player nervelessly slotted home the winner.
(16) You’d walk past him in the street without taking a second look, but he is Virgin Galactic’s chief test pilot and therefore possesses the kind of nerveless courage that is the preserve of a tiny fraction of humanity.
(17) Tom Daley delivered a nerveless performance on Saturday night to claim an extraordinary bronze medal in the 10m platform dive .
(18) And Graham does it – splitting the uprights nervelessly to win the game for New Orleans.
(19) Another was blown away by a nerveless drive volley from midcourt.
(20) Neverless hydra produced by hydroxyurea resemble nerveless animals produced by other techniques, in their behavioural, morphological and developmental properties.