nerve trunk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nerve trunk
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
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
The irritation of a nerve trunk not only contracts all the small nerves into which it branches, but also all those muscles through which it runs.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
The superior is the sensory root and the inferior is the motor root, both uniting to form a mixed nerve trunk.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.
So far as I know, it is only when a nerve trunk of some size has been wounded that neuralgia is a probable result.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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