nerve-centers

The relentless investigation reaches deep into L. A.'s nerve-centers of power and wealthpast and present.

The Murder Book: Summary and book reviews of The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman. 2002

Her extremities made feeble beginnings of motions, as if responding to blindly awakening nerve-centers.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Her extremities made feeble beginnings of motions, as if responding to blindly awakening nerve-centers.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Although surveys tell us that God remains important to approximately 95 percent of North Americans,3 the nerve-centers of powerful influence such as the media, the educational establishment, and the political infrastructure often treat questions of faith as outmoded, beneath the dignity of enlightened people, or downright irrelevant.

If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts? Dr. Lynn Anderson 2000

There is no hide protecting the eyes and they are nerve-centers if naught else.

Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

These nerve-centers, viewed as magnets of electro-vitality, require to be regarded as having each a positive nucleus in the interior, on which are ranged the negative ends of the currents which go out from this positive nucleus in every direction to the surface of the medullary organ -- so radiating, as it were, from center to periphery.

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark

In addition to these, there are not only the lower brain and the spinal cord and the countless ramifications of motor and sensory nerves throughout the body, but there are also separate nerve-centers or ganglia in every one of the visceral organs of the body.

Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency Warren Hilton

It is a well-known fact that bismuth, a white powder containing sugar of lead, injures the nerve-centers when constantly employed, and occasionally causes paralysis itself.

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

In the material organism of man, the great nerve-centers -- the brain, the spinal cord, and the ganglions -- appear to act the part of fixed magnets, charged with the electro-vital fluid.

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark

And the nerve-lines and ramifications which issue from these great nerve-centers are polarized evidently in the same way -- the electro-vital fluid being disposed with its negative ends to the positive surfaces of the nerve-centers, and its positive or plus ends to the "vital organs," and especially to the surfaces of the organism as a whole.

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark