Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A course, especially in the central nervous organs, along which a nervous impulse can propagate itself.
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Examples
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The disturbing forces blocking my proper nerve-path flows flickered and went down, but I could sense them changing, gathering forces, moving into another position to attempt to set up another nerve block.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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_ The nerve-path through which a stimulus produces a response or through which one idea produces or evokes another.
The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners William Henry Pyle
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It seems that when we are building up a new nerve-path which is to be the basis of a new habit, the nervous energies should not be divided; that the whole available nervous energy should be devoted to the acts which we are repeating.
The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners William Henry Pyle
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When one tries to recall the name and it will not come to mind, there is some temporary block or hindrance in the nerve-path that leads from one center to the other and one cannot think of the name till the obstruction is removed.
The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners William Henry Pyle
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_ A very simple act brought about by a stimulus through an hereditary nerve-path.
The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners William Henry Pyle
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The impressive nerve-path, _o_ _a_ K, is centripetal; the expressive,
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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