innervate

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Auditory nerve fibers innervate narrow, topographically organized, ldquoisofrequencyrdquo bands in deaf animals over the ages examined, P18-P70.

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  1. transitive verb To supply (an organ or a body part) with nerves.
  2. transitive verb To stimulate (a nerve, muscle, or body part) to action.

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Examples (13)

  • Auditory nerve fibers innervate narrow, topographically organized, ldquoisofrequencyrdquo bands in deaf animals over the ages examined, P18-P70. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • These results show the usefulness of genetically encoded WGA as a tracer for the first and second order neurons that innervate a subset of taste cells, but not for higher order neurons, and demonstrate that the main route of output from type II taste cells is the gustatory neuron, not the type III cells. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Lets assume that you are able to recruit, say 80 \% of your Motor Units which contain Motor Neurons, the nerves that innervate respective group of muscle fibers. —  www.hardwarezone.com.sg
  • Pmec-3:: rpm-1 (+), which expresses RPM-1 in the mechanosensory neurons that innervate the GLR-1-expressing interneurons, could rescue —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Summary Cholinergic neurons originating from the basal forebrain innervate the entire cortical mantle. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Latin in, in, + nervus, nerve (see nerve), + -ate.
 

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/ɪˈnərveɪt/
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