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  • These nerve fibers, which Marshall believes to be sensory, and which he has termed nervi nervorum, are considered by him to have an important bearing upon certain neuralgic pains.

    IX. Neurology. 1. Structure of the Nervous System 1918

  • E' strano, e mi da veramente fastidio - certo forse e' naturale, e a dire il vero con alcune colleghe/amiche questo non succede piu anche se non e' che sia la solita Ra pazzoide, troppo diretta e inopportuna, e sicuramente col tempo mi sentiro piu a mio agio...ma mi da' comunque sui nervi che trovi cosi' difficile essere me stessa.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ra 2009

  • E' strano, e mi da veramente fastidio - certo forse e' naturale, e a dire il vero con alcune colleghe/amiche questo non succede piu anche se non e' che sia la solita Ra pazzoide, troppo diretta e inopportuna, e sicuramente col tempo mi sentiro piu a mio agio...ma mi da' comunque sui nervi che trovi cosi' difficile essere me stessa.

    Sometimes work happens Ra 2009

  • Un uccello curioso mette alla prova i nervi di un ittiosauro che sta cercando di bilanciare 9 ciotole di zuppa… Ma perché poi?

    No Fat Clips!!! : They Might Be Giants – Nine Bowls of Soup 2008

  • Imaginatio impellit spiritus, et inde nervi moventur,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aliquando nervi, aliquando pedes vexant, (Seneca) nunc distillatio, nunc epatis morbus; nunc deest, nunc superest sanguis: now the head aches, then the feet, now the lungs, then the liver, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Now Marsh knew that somehow Terry had cottoned on to what was going to happen and had driven one of the Roy was sitting at home with little Benny, He was nervi and worried.

    Dangerous Lady Cole, Martina 1992

  • Cauterizetur utrumque caput nervi incisi peroptime cum ferro candenti, sed cave vulneris lobia cum ferro calido tangantur.

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • Dicto citius nervi paruerunt imperio manusque aniculae ingenti motu repleverunt.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Mr. Victor Horsley has recently demonstrated the existence of true sensory nerves supplying the nerve trunks of nervi-nervorum.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 Various

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