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Definition of Nerve centre

1. Noun. A center that provides information and control. "The nerve center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam"

2. Noun. A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process. "In most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerve Centre

nerve-shaken nerve-shredding nerve-wracking nerve agent nerve agents nerve avulsion nerve biopsy nerve block nerve block anaesthesia nerve block anesthesia

nerve cell nerve cell body nerve cells nerve center nerve centers nerve centre (current term) nerve compression nerve compression syndromes nerve conduction nerve conduction velocity

nerve cord nerve deafness nerve decompression nerve degeneration nerve end nerve ending nerve endings nerve entrapment nerve fascicle nerve fiber

Literary usage of Nerve centre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"An article of interne interest and great value. nerve centre overflows to the respiratory, the cardiac, and the vomiting centre. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"There is reason also to believe, as Schroeder van der Kolk has shown, that some portion of this nerve centre is brought into action for the purpose of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"This grey colour is so characteristic, that, it may be regarded as marking the position of a nerve centre. The nervous system possesses a characteristic ..."

4. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"The spinal cord, as has been seen, is capable of independent action as a nerve-centre or collection of nerve-centres, also serving as a means of connection ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Having entered the nerve-centre, they branch and send their ultimate twigs among the cells, without, however, uniting with them. ..."

6. The Study of Children and Their School Training by Francis Warner (1897)
"Stimulation is necessary to movement as well as a supply of blood to the nerve-centre ; sights and sounds are the more common stimuli to movements. ..."

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