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Definition of Nerve fibre
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 fibre
1. Noun. (anatomy) An axon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Nerve fibre
1. The axon of a nerve cell, ensheathed by oligodendroglia cells in brain and spinal cord, and by Schwann cells in peripheral nerves. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerve Fibre
Literary usage of Nerve fibre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Disease and destruction of the muscle or nerve fibre do not necessarily, however,
bring in their train death of the nerve cell; indeed, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... al°nS a nerve fibre or pursues its intricate course along the fibrillar tracts
of a nerve- cell, the amount of chemical change is too slight to be ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"It forms not unfrequently the only constituent of a nerve fibre at its central and
... This form of nerve fibre consists of pale grey, translucent, ..."
4. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"This physiological action produces no visible change in the nerve fibre itself.
... Nevertheless, it is evident that the nerve fibre serves to communicate ..."
5. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"In reality, however, the nerve-fibre is in these cases a process of the epithelial
cell, and if followed centrally will be found to end by branching around ..."
6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"And we accordingly find that both at the beginning of the nerve fibre in the
ganglion cell or spinal cord, and at its end in the both ..."
7. A Text-book of physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"And we accordingly find that both at the beginning of the nerve fibre in the
ganglion cell or spinal cord, and at its end in the tissue, ..."
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