nerve fibre

noun

1. a threadlike extension of a nerve cell; axon

Example Sentences

I believe that a Stimulant is able actually to produce nervous action; perhaps by an irritative operation upon nerve-fibre.

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Cuvier knew, for example, that each muscle fibre has its own nerve fibre.

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The neuraxon gives off a number of collaterals, and then becomes a nerve-fibre of the central white matter.

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So, in the brain, every sensation is the ring of a cerebral particle, the effect of a momentary impulse sent along a nerve-fibre.

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One and the same nerve-fibre always reacts in a precisely similar way, whatever the nature of the stimulus.

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