nerve trunk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nerve trunk
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
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
Anesthesia occurs in connection with cerebral and spinal paralysis, section of a nerve trunk leading to a part, in severe mental depression, and in narcotic poisoning.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
This latter structure is an incipient nerve trunk.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
These unite and run side by side, forming as they pass between the vertebræ one silvery thread, or nerve trunk.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
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