nerve trunk

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. the main stem of a nerve.

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Etymology

Origin of nerve trunk

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

The important nerve trunk that carries nervous fibres to the heart bears fibres to the digestive tract, the oesophagus, the stomach, the intestines, the liver as well, and also to the larynx and lungs.

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These experiments, therefore, are of great interest—first, as showing that traumatic and transmissible epilepsy is not confined to guinea-pigs; and next, as indicating that the pathological state in question is associated with the highest nerve-centres, which may therefore well be affected by injury to the lower centres, or even by section of a large nerve trunk.

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So far as I know, it is only when a nerve trunk of some size has been wounded that neuralgia is a probable result.

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Shortly after passing out, these two form into one, uniting to constitute a nerve trunk.

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It is not necessary, indeed, that the nerve trunk to a part should be cut, if it is sufficiently compressed its function is stopped and various disturbances begin to appear in the vitality of the part which it supplies.

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