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nerve fiber

noun

, Anatomy, Physiology.
  1. a process, axon, or dendrite of a nerve cell.


nerve fiber

  1. See axon


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nerve fiber1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

It is believed that each is sensitive to a particular vibration rate and that each is also attached to a nerve fiber.

Corporals, sensitive as the bulb of nerve fiber at the end of a cat's whisker, are given the merry hand with a marble heart.

Like the copper rod, the axis cylinder along which the nerve impulse travels is the essential part of a nerve fiber.

He awoke from his stupor with a shock that set every nerve-fiber quivering.

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