innervate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
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to furnish with nerves; grow nerves into.
verb
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to supply nerves to (a bodily organ or part)
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to stimulate (a bodily organ or part) with nerve impulses
Other Word Forms
- innervation noun
Etymology
Origin of innervate
Example Sentences
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Using mouse antibodies that glom on to proteasomes, and other methods, the investigators found the proteasomes on the surface of neurons in the spinal cord, dorsal root ganglia, sciatic nerve and peripheral nerves innervating skin.
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They knew that vocal cord adduction is controlled by laryngeal motor neurons, so they began by tracing backward to find the neurons that innervate those motor neurons.
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The researchers knew that muscles become less innervated, or infiltrated with nerves, as people and animals age.
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The same was true when another member of the research team, Courtney Wilson, recorded signals from the nerves that innervate the taste cells.
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The researchers focused on sympathetic nerves that innervate our organs and produce the messenger hormone noradrenaline, which is also a stress hormone.
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