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Nerve fibre   /nərv fˈaɪbər/   Listen
Nerve fibre

noun
1.
A threadlike extension of a nerve cell.  Synonym: nerve fiber.






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"Nerve fibre" Quotes from Famous Books



... come till much later, till some years after Cuvier's death in 1832. Knowledge of histological detail was, however, considerable by the beginning of the 19th century. Cuvier knew, for example, that each muscle fibre has its own nerve fibre. But he gives no elaborate account of the homogeneous parts, no detailed histology. On the other hand his treatment of the heterogeneous parts or organs ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell



Words linked to "Nerve fibre" :   nerve, efferent fiber, axon, afferent fiber, myelinated nerve fiber, neurolemma, dendrite, nervus, medullated nerve fiber, sensory fiber, axone, effector, fibre, fiber, neurilemma, motor fiber



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