Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state of nervelessness.
- noun The act of innervating or innerving; in physiology, supply of nervous influence or control; the sending of stimulation to some organ through its nerves.
- noun In anatomy, the disposition of the nervous system in an animal body or any part of it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of innerving or stimulating.
- noun (Physiol.) Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life, and the functions of the various organs.
- noun (Anat.) The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
innervating orstimulating . - noun Special activity excited in any part of the
nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; thenervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. - noun The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- noun the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region
Etymologies
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Examples
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An incipient innervation, which is all that we need assume as the condition of a change of mental attitude, would suffice to block, or at least to hamper, inconsistent innervations no more complete than itself.
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Now in turning the eye from a luminous object, _O_, to some other fixation-point, _P_, the distance as simply contemplated is more or less subdivided or filled in by the objects which are seen to lie between _O_ and _P_, or if no such objects are visible the distance is still felt to consist of an infinity of points; whereas the muscular innervation which is to carry the eye over this very distance is an undivided unit.
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No—about peptidergic innervation of the internal anal sphincter in Hirschsprung's Disease.
Norm Bladdon, Private G.I. Con Chapman 2011
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It's generally the case that their eye muscles and the innervation of the eye muscles are fine.
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It's generally the case that their eye muscles and the innervation of the eye muscles are fine.
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We may reject the first possibility, as the principle of pain alsomanifests itself as a regulator for the emotional discharge of thesecond system; we are, therefore, directed to the second possibility, namely, that this system occupies a reminiscence in such a manner as dolly buster free bilder toinhibit its discharge and hence, also, to inhibit the dischargecomparable to a motor innervation for the development of pain.
Nokia announces NFC handset for Q107 Jan Kuczynski 2007
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Previous anatomical studies demonstrated vagal innervation to the ovary and distal colon and suggested the vagus nerve has uterine inputs.
In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007
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Since my only published work was concerned wit the rat colon and the noradrenergic innervation therein, there was not much scope for inserting a sex scene!
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Morphological studies showed that there were in the snout three distinctive features: (1) a dorsal swelling in the pharynx, the Organ of Feuerwerk, consisting of brown adipose tissue with an extensive sympathetic innervation; (2) greatly enlarged lachrymonasal ducts, the Ducts of Kwentsch; and (3) asbestos deposits in the nasal skin, the Bestos Bodies.
The pyrophysiology and sexuality of dragons Zoe Brain 2008
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But the brain itself, that organ which causes so much innervation to the rest of your body, doesn't really have any pain fibers of its own.
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