nerve
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One received active nerve stimulation, while the other used a sham device designed to serve as a comparison.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The chronic condition occurs when the immune system attacks the protective layer of nerve fibers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
A new study suggests that the treatment, which uses ultrasound to guide an injection of ordinary saline around a compressed nerve, provides longer-lasting benefits than traditional steroid injections, without the risks associated with steroids.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
In patients who underwent hydrodissection, the cross-sectional area of the median nerve decreased by approximately 43% to 45%.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Possibly because my nerve endings had already burned off.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
The nerves were obvious as there were misplaced passes, poor clearances and sloppy errors in a disjointed first half.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“I think the earnings season is probably also from a fundamental sense, it’s a sort of let’s calm down the nerves a little bit,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Chwalinska, 25, felt a few nerves as she closed in on her first WTA 1,000 title, but took her third championship point when Kartal hammered a forehand long.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
He pressed forward and tried to calm his nerves by imagining himself in a hot bath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
I do hope French Lick is helpful for his feet and nerves.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
“He can get a little nerved up in the paddock,” said Shirreffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2021
Then followed a few scruffy years on local TV, including his celebrated stint as a smart-aleck weatherman, before he nerved himself to head to Los Angeles in 1975.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2017
Less a teen-age Rangerphile than an arachnophobe encountering a tarantula, I nerved myself to walk over to where Lindsay sat and confronted him, boy to man.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015
With the agility and speed of a backcourt guard, he un nerved opponents by blocking numerous shots, scoring 145 points and leading the team in rebounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I needed some fresh air,” I tell him, which is indicative of how nerved up I am.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
She stood outside nerving herself for the ordeal, knowing her desk would be the only one without flowers.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Then all was dark, and I was nerving myself for what I had to do.
From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn
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