nerve trunk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nerve trunk
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over habitually squeezes a nerve trunk between the rib and hip bone.
From Time Magazine Archive
He traces the sensory nerve leading from the site of the cancer and injects about a cubic centimeter of 45% alcohol near the point where the nerve trunk joins the spinal cord.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atrophy and cystic degeneration of the nerve trunk follows destruction of retinal neurons and cupping of the disc.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.
An ordinary nerve, normally connected with its terminal organs, gives sign of life by means of muscle, which by direct or reflex path is set in motion when the nerve trunk is stimulated.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir
Invertebrates commonly have the main nerve trunk in front, or underneath, instead of at the back, and likewise often have their brains in their abdomens.
From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr
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