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Definition of Nerve fiber
1. Noun. A threadlike extension of a nerve cell.
Generic synonyms: Fiber, Fibre, Fiber, Fibre
Specialized synonyms: Medullated Nerve Fiber, Myelinated Nerve Fiber, Effector, Axon, Axone, Dendrite, Efferent Fiber, Motor Fiber, Afferent Fiber, Sensory Fiber
Terms within: Neurilemma, Neurolemma
Group relationships: Nerve, Nervus
Definition of Nerve fiber
1. Noun. (anatomy) An axon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerve Fiber
Literary usage of Nerve fiber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"THE PHENOMENON OF CONDUCTION—PROPERTIES OF THE nerve fiber. Conduction.—When
living matter is excited or stimulated in any way the excitation is not ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"So far as yet observed no exception occurs ; therefore we may safely assert that
every nerve cell of the brain or spinal cord produces one nerve fiber and ..."
3. A Text-book of the Principles of Animal Histology by Ulric Dahlgren, William Allison Kepner (1908)
"THE nerve fiber The nerve fiber is that part of a neuron which is specialized
for conduction. It is an integral part of the nerve cell; an evagination of ..."
4. Human Physiology: A Text-book for High Schools and Colleges by Percy Goldthwait Stiles (1916)
"It is the junction of a nerve fiber with a muscle fiber. From what has been said
it will appear that every muscle fiber is reached by a nerve fiber. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"THE GROWTH OF nerve fiberS THE view that each nerve fiber develops as an ...
Such observations show beyond question that the nerve fiber develops by the ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"In the absence of the embryonic nerve fiber, the degenerated myelin was absorbed
with ... On the other hand, where the embryonic nerve fiber was formed the ..."
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