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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

Every sensation arises from thousands of nerve fibers and millions of brain cells, explains Sliman Bensmaia.

“Anytime we touch anything, our perceptual experience is the product of the activity of thousands of nerve fibers and millions of neurons in the brain,” says neuroscientist Sliman Bensmaia of the University of Chicago.

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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