nerve trunk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nerve trunk
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
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
This latter structure is an incipient nerve trunk.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Paralysis of a single member or a single group of muscles is known as monoplegia and results from injury to the motor center or to a nerve trunk leading to the part that is involved.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
But all vertebrata have the great nerve trunk at the back, contained in the spine and with a bulb on the front or upper end constituting the brain.
From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr
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