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
"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
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
Attached to the cell is the termination of a nerve fiber.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
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