from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy and zoology, a nerve.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
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To give an idea of this, some phenomena may be mentioned, which by means of the string galvanometer have been investigated by Einthoven himself: the retina current (1908, 1909), the action currents in nervus vagus
This portion of the nerve is often described as the nervus intermedius.
The word nerve now applied to them is from the Latin nervus, which is traced back to the Sanskrit snavara, meaning a string or cord.
Then Miss Kinnian came to see me and she brout me some magizenes to reed, and she lookd kind of nervus and skared.
(I'm moderating this one, gosh I hope it goes okay * nervus*.)
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I about as nervus as da kitteh wit da weird peeps lookin at it!
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