Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Linking two neurons in a neuronal pathway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to an internuncio or his office.
- In physiology, pertaining to, resembling, or possessing the function of the nervous system as communicating between different parts of the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an internuncio.
- adjective (Physiol.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to an
internuncio . - adjective Between
neurons ; communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As a rule they are provoked by cooperation between groups of afferent, internuncial, and efferent neurones.
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But if there be something in the case besides live machinery and crossing telegrams, if there be a monarch mind inaccessible to the vulgar crowd of things and only conversing with them through the internuncial nerves, that spirit entity may itself be capable of existing forever in an ideal universe and of communing there face to face with its own kingly lineage and brood.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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The subvirus is attacking the internuncial neurones. "
Man Made Albert Teichner
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