nerve ending
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- noun
- /nɜrv ˈɛndɪŋ/
- Specialized
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terminación nerviosa
- Skin, the largest human organ, is comprised of nerve endings that register external physical, chemical, and thermal environmental conditions.
Maybe these are the particular nerve endings that are responsible for this.
- Maybe these are the particular nerve endings that are responsible for this.
- And the other funny thing was it had the knife actually it it cut my nerve endings so I could literally feel no pain.
- That inflammation can attack your small nerve endings in your feet, toes, legs, hands and arms and other parts of your body.
- My my nerve endings just got all dulled.
- But essentially that area is full of certain nerve endings as well as the female prostate or the skeins glands.
- You know, there's more nerve endings in certain uncircumcised cocks.
- Because this is neuroscience, I'm not going to bore your audience with it, but nerve endings in the limbs and in the feet is where the endorphins are triggered most.
Examples
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Chinese doctors believe that stimulating nerve endings with needles changes the brain's pattern and response to pain.
Blog text (24) -
After two days, the nerve endings responsible for smell and taste start to recover.
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Maybe these are the particular nerve endings that are responsible for this.
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It's full of the right kind of nerve endings.
Fiction book (2002) -
Even with my damaged nerve endings, it hurt like hell.
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Within the various depths of skin, free nerve endings help regulate body temperature.
Academic text (2017) -
A frisson of awareness brought all of her nerve endings to full alert.
Fiction book (1998) -
Calcium reacts with your nerve endings to soothe them and relax them, thus relieving the tensions built up during...
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The warmth spreads along her nerve endings, and the sensation is both repulsive and erotic.
Fiction book (2000) -
When the needle pricked my skin, I felt the sharp pain in the nerve endings of my arm.
Synonyms
The small tip of a nerve that sends and receives signals
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'nerve ending' is transparently built from 'nerve' (a nerve fiber) + 'ending' (the terminal part), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the terminal part of a nerve. While detailed physiological nuances are technical, the basic locational/functional sense (the end of a nerve that detects sensations) is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Nerve ending comes from the simple image of a nerve finishing in a tiny ending or tip in the body. These little endings detect touch, temperature and pain, so the term means the small parts that send those 'feelings' to the brain.