nerve fiber

noun

, Anatomy, Physiology.

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

nerve fiber

1. See axon

Word History and Origins

Origin of nerve fiber¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Every sensation arises from thousands of nerve fibers and millions of brain cells, explains Sliman Bensmaia.

From Science News For Students

“Anytime we touch anything, our perceptual experience is the product of the activity of thousands of nerve fibers and millions of neurons in the brain,” says neuroscientist Sliman Bensmaia of the University of Chicago.

From Science News

It is believed that each is sensitive to a particular vibration rate and that each is also attached to a nerve fiber.

From Project Gutenberg

Corporals, sensitive as the bulb of nerve fiber at the end of a cat's whisker, are given the merry hand with a marble heart.

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Like the copper rod, the axis cylinder along which the nerve impulse travels is the essential part of a nerve fiber.

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He awoke from his stupor with a shock that set every nerve-fiber quivering.

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