nerve fiber
Americannoun
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
Their results showed that in the mixed nerve fiber bundles, only the myelin sheaths of the axons that belonged to the non-plugged active ear were strengthened.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Tessier-Lavigne is best known for his work in the 1990s on identifying axon guidance molecules, proteins that direct nerve fiber growth in the embryonic brain and spinal cord.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023
But the benefits derived from this nerve fiber — he’s fond of calling it “the Higgs boson of the social brain” — don’t end in infancy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2019
Listening with every nerve fiber on the alert, Bud found the night peopled with a multitude of sounds that on an ordinary occasion would have passed unnoticed.
From The Free Range by Duer, Douglas
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