Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The substance of which the essential part of a nerve-or ganglion-cell and its processes is composed.
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Examples
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The shallower-lying nervous fibres of the stomach had become definitely paralyzed, and such _digestion_ as could be perfected under these circumstances was the only method of getting the stimulant in contact with any excitable nerve-substance.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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It is not essential to discover in the nerve-substance the precise power from which an impulse originates.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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At our death there disappears only the individual form in which the nerve-substance was fashioned, and the personal "soul" which represented the work performed by this.
Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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