nerve system

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The team used cutting-edge technology to directly manipulate fat or sugar neurons in the vagus nerve system and demonstrated that both types of neurons cause a dopamine release in the brain's reward center in mice.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Van Achterberg, who runs a modeling agency, got into the sport after her left leg was amputated following an injury when she was 11 that left her nerve system severely damaged.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023

But one thing researchers have recently come to understand is that the pelvic nerve system varies enormously from one woman to the next.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2016

Kyle Lowry, the Raptors’ engine and nerve system, had shed several pounds to make his killer first half of the previous year more sustainable.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2016

Already this Bell System has grown to be so vast, so nearly akin to a national nerve system, that there is nothing else to which we can compare it.

From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton