nerve fiber
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- noun
- /nɜrv ˈfaɪbər/
- Specialized
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fibra nerviosa
- More stress sensors can be added to nerve fibers until they become so sensitive that even light touches to the skin spark intense electrical signals.
- afferent nerve fibers
- myelinated nerve fibers
- efferent nerve fibers
So we have nerve fibers that run throughout our whole body.
- So we have nerve fibers that run throughout our whole body.
- So there are two kinds of touch nerve fibre.
- We have two different kinds of touch nerve fiber in our body, fast ones and slow ones.
- It was so big that for a long time people thought that this was a strengthening skeletal element and didn't recognise it as a single nerve fibre.
- They have focused in the colon that they coupled to nerve fibers of the spinal cord.
- But that simple or I should say subtle mental shift changes the patterns of nerve fiber recruitment.
- Because exercise that triggers the activation of these nerve fibers, these neurons that innervate fat.
Examples
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After the initial exposure, herpes zoster lies dormant in certain nerve fibers.
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So we have nerve fibers that run throughout our whole body.
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We have two different kinds of touch nerve fiber in our body, fast ones and slow ones.
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Outer hair cells are in contact with two types of nerve fibers.
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So individual nerve fibers contact a single hair cell in your cochlea.
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Type I hair cells are flask-shaped and connected to a single large afferent nerve fiber.
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Her brain also shows differences in white matter, the bundles of nerve fibers that connect one region.
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A group of nerve fibers interconnecting the right hemisphere and left hemisphere is the corpus callosum.
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Two types of nerve fibers (A-delta fibers and C-fibers) carry nociceptive stimuli to the spinal cord.
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Touch receptors in our skin contain specialized nerve fibers that transmit sensations rapidly.
Synonyms
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A thin part of a nerve cell that grows out and carries signals
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'nerve fiber' is directly compositionally derived from 'nerve' (relating to the nervous system) and 'fiber' (an elongated threadlike part), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the slender threadlike part of a nerve that conducts impulses. This noun+noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern and therefore readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Nerve fiber comes from comparing a thin part of a nerve to a 'thread' or fiber, a thin string. So it gives the image of a long, thin 'thread' that carries signals, which is why the term means 'a long, thin part of a nerve that sends signals'.