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nerve fiber

American  

noun

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


nerve fiber Scientific  
  1. See axon


Etymology

Origin of nerve fiber

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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Nobody seems to care if the SecUnit, a blend of machinery with lab-cloned human skin, muscle and nerve fiber, gets hurt or destroyed.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

"Surprisingly, all the nerve fiber bundles we investigated in the brain contained axons that carried information from the right ear as well as axons transmitting information from the left ear," says Stancu.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Scans of the study participants’ brain before their surgery showed that the degree of damage to certain nerve fiber tracts correlated with the severity of their depression.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

What all this experimental evidence means is still unclear, apart from generally confirming that, in autistic people, something unusual goes on in type C nerve fiber activity and touch perception.

From Science Magazine • May 29, 2019

It was found to be a small nerve fiber pinched by a scar in the dura as a consequence of an injury received when Von B�low was very young.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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