nerve tissue

n.

A highly differentiated tissue composed of nerve cells, nerve fibers, dendrites, and neuroglia.

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There are certain "real neuroses" such as paralysis and spinal-cord disease, which involve an organic impairment of nerve-tissue.
Outwitting Our Nerves|Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
Hence results accumulation; there is restoration of nerve-tissue to its state of integrity.
Scientific American, September 29, 1883 Supplement. No. 404|Various
Nerve-tissue, then, universally consists of two elementary structures, viz.
Jellyfish, Starfish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems|G. J. Romanes
This results not so much from the depressing influences of pain as from the peculiar malnutrition of the nerve-tissue.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II|Various

Think of the saving of nerve-tissue, think of the prevention of brain-irritation.
The King of Schnorrers|Israel Zangwill

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