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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of innervate.

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  • What happens when a stimulus prompts the organism to respond in a given way, is that some sensory nerve, whether of taste or touch or sound, sight, smell, or muscular sensitivity, receives a stimulus which passes through the spinal cord to a motor nerve through which some muscle is "innervated" and a response made.

    Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

  • The somnambulism of the left, having won something but not so much that it appears to have upset business as usual, is innervated further by dire predictions of losing even what has been accomplished.

    Stephen Herrington: The Invisible Six Point Democratic Lead Stephen Herrington 2010

  • The somnambulism of the left, having won something but not so much that it appears to have upset business as usual, is innervated further by dire predictions of losing even what has been accomplished.

    Stephen Herrington: The Invisible Six Point Democratic Lead Stephen Herrington 2010

  • The somnambulism of the left, having won something but not so much that it appears to have upset business as usual, is innervated further by dire predictions of losing even what has been accomplished.

    Stephen Herrington: The Invisible Six Point Democratic Lead Stephen Herrington 2010

  • • The extent to which the reader is drawn into the story and the lives of its characters; the degree to which emotions are stirred, and the imagination filled and innervated

    The ‘woefully incompetent’ and ‘pugnacious’ André Alexis 2010

  • That bar was placed improperly and was allowed to grate against the live, nerve innervated bone of my chin, for over a year before I was able to get a reconstruction of my jaw done at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV.

    Addicted... Hollywood's prescription drug problem 2010

  • That bar was placed improperly and was allowed to grate against the live, nerve innervated bone of my chin, for over a year before I was able to get a reconstruction of my jaw done at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV.

    Teens talk of prescription drug abuse 2010

  • Like its classmates in the six-figure mega-sedan category, the new Audi A8L is a smart and powerful machine, a metallic being innervated by staggering amounts of computer coding.

    The Better to Eat You With, Luxury Rivals DAN NEIL 2010

  • Meanwhile, at the center of children's little pulsing innervated kernels is the phylogenetic imperative encoded in their DNA to grow, to expand, to self-organize, to learn, to exercise the autonomy that defines them as organisms.

    Teaching Children to Hate School Jim Horn 2009

  • Meanwhile, at the center of children's little pulsing innervated kernels is the phylogenetic imperative encoded in their DNA to grow, to expand, to self-organize, to learn, to exercise the autonomy that defines them as organisms.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jim Horn 2009

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