104 Words to use with nerves

In the first place, the medulla contains numerous nerve cells, belonging to the vegetative, also called the sympathetic nervous system.

But his work had reference to the growth of tissues only of coldblooded animals, he having cultivated artificially, nerve fibers from the central nervous system of the frog.

Finally, there are the large nerve masses at the base of the brain known as the basal ganglia, which contain the nerve centers for the co-ordination of the other three.

Of men of thought, it can scarcely be true that they eat so much, in a general way, though even they eat more than they are apt to suppose they do; for, as Mr. Lewes observes, "nerve-tissue is very expensive."

Higher pleasures lose half their value, when the distinction between the two is reduced to the distinction between the sensations of higher and lower nerve centres.

Made up as they are of living nerve substance, the fibers can also generate energy, yet it is their special function to conduct influences to and from the cells.

The constant nerve strain under which I had labored for days and nights, made me shrink from groping blindly forward, searching for the unknown.

I ventured a cautious step forward, and stood on the open sand, scarcely a yard to his rear, every nerve throbbing, my lips still silently counting the seconds.

Jetson, after his late rapid expenditure of force and nerve-energy, was now just the least bit confused.

" Her firm and cheering words, and her calm manner, aided in the work of restoration that had begun when the nerve-tension was lessened.

In this case it is not the nerve force from the brain that supplies the energy for contraction.

What a curious compound of nerve ends and gland activities a man's dreamsthat he lived by, or died forwere!

These unite and run side by side, forming as they pass between the vertebræ one silvery thread, or nerve trunk.

The feeding of thymus has caused muscle cramps which apparently depends upon an increased excitability of the muscle nerve endings.

That is, there may be a bigger stomach or a smaller stomach, larger nerve fibres or smaller.

He's a nerve specialist.

Driving a plane through clouds, mist and sunshine for hours had made every nerve alert.

Adrenalin, that weapon of a gland tracing its ancestry back to the begetter of the brain itself, for brain and adrenal gland both have evolved from the small nerve ganglia of the invertebrates, would have backed up to the hilt his argument, which he had to elaborate on the indirect grounds of analogy and induction.

Nerve impulses, and with them sensations and ideas, travel faster or flow more quickly through iodinized or adrenalinized brain cells.

Peripheral nerve injuries; principles of diagnosis, by Webb Haymaker & Barnes Woodhall.

The nervous system had hitherto been regarded as the sole means of communication between cells, by its telegraphic arrangements of nerve filaments reaching out everywhere, interweaving with each other and the cells.

She sat absolutely still with every nerve tense, feeling chilly and scared.

" I cried, with no slight show of irritation, for the imminence of the danger set every nerve tingling until I could think of nothing save the most hurried flight.

There was a chorus of sounds from the cataract, the river, the wind, the trees, and the birds, a mighty music of elements of the earth and of life, rising and falling rhythmically, and inspiring, but nerve-racking.

If only my soul were bound more firmly to the nerve-spirit, it might be bound more closely with the nerves themselves; but the bond of my nerve-spirit is always becoming looser.

104 Words to use with  nerves