nervus

[ nûr′vəs ]

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A nerve.

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Question 1 of 12

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

Si vero ex oblique nervus incidatur, eodem remedio curatur, et natura cooperante saepe conglutinatur.
Gilbertus Anglicus|Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Nota quod secundum Rogerium nervus omnino incisus non potest consolidari, vel conjungi nec sui.
Gilbertus Anglicus|Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Well come on Salteena he cried and dont be nervus I will get you a pair of knickers tomorrow.
The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan|Daisy Ashford
Homer says in speaking of the bow of Pandarus, "stridit funis, et nervus valde sonuit."
Myth and Science|Tito Vignoli

Near the base of the precoracoidal process is a small foramen for the passage of the nervus supracoracoideus.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7|Various