nerve

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  "THERE MUST BE SOMETHING THE MATTER WITH MY NERVES"
• WordNet 3.6
  • v nerve get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
  • n nerve impudent aggressiveness "I couldn't believe her boldness","he had the effrontery to question my honesty"
  • n nerve the courage to carry on "he kept fighting on pure spunk","you haven't got the heart for baseball"
  • n nerve any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
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• Interesting fact: Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second
• • nerve A sinew or a tendon.
  • nerve Audacity; assurance.
  • nerve (Zoöl) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
  • nerve (Bot) 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.
  • nerve (Anat) 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.
  • nerve Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor. "he led me on to mightiest deeds,
    Above the nerve of mortal arm."
  • nerve Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
  • v. t Nerve nẽrv To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
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• Interesting fact: Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second
• • n nerve A sinew, tendon, or other hard white cord of the body: the original meaning of the word, at the time when nervous tissue was not distinguished from some forms of connective tissue. See aponeurosis.
  • n nerve In anatomy, a nerve-fiber, or usually a bundle of nerve-fibers, running from a central ganglionic organ to peripheral mechanisms, either active (as glands and muscles) or receptive (sense-organs). The nerve-fibers are bound together into a primitive bundle called a funiculus. The connective tissue between the fibers within the funiculus is the endoneurium, and the connective tissue sheathing the funiculus is the perineurium. In the larger nerves several funiculi may be bound together into one trunk by connective tissue which forms the epineurium. See cut under median.
  • n nerve Something resembling a nerve (either a sinew, as in the earlier figurative uses, or a nerve in the present sense, 2) in form or function.
  • n nerve Strength of sinew; bodily strength; firmness or vigor of body; muscular power; brawn. More specifically— Strength, power, or might in general; fortitude or endurance under trying or critical circumstances; courage.
  • n nerve Force; energy; spirit; dash.
  • n nerve Assurance: boldness; cheek.
  • n nerve plural Hysterical nervousness. See nervousness .
  • n nerve In entomology, a nervure; a vein; a costa; one of the tubular ridges or thickenings which ramify in the wings. See nervure, 3.
  • n nerve In botany, one of a system of ribs or principal veins in a leaf. See nervation.
  • n nerve In architecture, same as nervure, 1.
  • n nerve A technical name applied to the non-porous quality acquired by cork when, in its preparation for use in the arts, its surface is slightly charred by heat, and its pores are thus closed.
  • n nerve Branches of the pneumogastric to the cardiac plexus, variable in number. Those arising in the neck are called cervical cardiac; in the thorax, thoracic.
  • n nerve Anterior dental nerve, a branch of the superior maxillary supplying tile upper front teeth and contiguous part of the antrum. Also called superior anterior alveolar
  • n nerve Inferior dental nerve, the largest branch of the inferior maxillary, running through the inferior dental canal and supplying the teeth of the lower jaw. It, gives off the mylohyoid and mental branches. Also called inferior alveolar
  • n nerve Posterior dental nerve, a branch of the superior maxillary distributed to the mucous membrane of the cheek and gum and the back teeth of the upper jaw. Also called posterior superior alveolar.
  • n nerve The glossopharyngeal, vagus, and spinal accessory nerves.
  • n nerve Of the foot, slender branches of the anterior tibial to the metatarso-phalangeal articulations
  • n nerve Posterior, the larger terminal division of the musculospiral. It supplies the short supinator and all the extensor muscles on the back of the arm, except, the long radiocarpal.
  • n nerve The pars intermedia of the facial nerve.
  • n nerve The hypoglossal nerve.
  • n nerve The facial and auditory nerves.
  • nerve To give nerve to; supply strength or vigor to; arm with force, physical or moral: as, rage nerved his arm.
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• Interesting fact: Our nerves system transmits messages at up to 300 ft. per second.
• • n Nerve nėrv bodily strength, firmness, courage: : :
  • v.t Nerve to give strength or vigour to: to arm with force
  • n Nerve a medicine that soothes nervous excitement
  • n Nerve nėrv (anat.) one of the fibres which convey sensation from all parts of the body to the brain
  • n Nerve nėrv (bot.) one of the fibres or ribs in the leaves of plants: a trade term for a non-porous quality of cork, slightly charred
  • n Nerve nėrv (pl.) hysterical nervousness
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• Christopher Morley

  

  “In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
• Les Brown

  

  “If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.”
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  

  “When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
• Helen Rowland

  

  “A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
• Benjamin Disraeli

  

  “It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
• Joe E. Lewis

  

  “I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.”

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