nerve
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nerve/nɜːv/
▶noun
- 1 a fibre or bundle of fibres in the body that transmits impulses of sensation between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- 2 (one's nerve or nerves) one's steadiness and courage.
- 3 (nerves) nervousness.
- 4 informal impudence.
- 5 Botany a prominent unbranched rib in a leaf, especially the midrib of the leaf of a moss.
– phrases
get on someone's nerves informal irritate someone.
touch (or hit) a (raw) nerve refer to a sensitive topic.
get on someone's nerves informal irritate someone.
touch (or hit) a (raw) nerve refer to a sensitive topic.
– derivatives
-nerved adjective.
-nerved adjective.
'nerve' also found in these Oxford entries:
acetylcholinesterase
- action potential
- adrenergic
- afferent
- amaurosis
- Ampakine
- antidromic
- arborization
- axon
- balls
- Bell's palsy
- bipolar
- blind spot
- bottle
- bouton
- bundle
- carpal tunnel syndrome
- causalgia
- central nervous system
- cerebroside
- chicken
- cholinergic
- cingulum
- cochlea
- cold
- commissure
- connective
- corpus callosum
- courage
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- demyelinate
- dendrite
- denervate
- depressor
- dermis
- dopa
- efferent
- electrophysiology
- fail
- funiculus
- funny bone
- GABA
- ganglion
- glomerulus
- grey matter
- hilus
- innervate
- internode
- leucotomy
- motor cortex
