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parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.

To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. He sweats, Strains his young nerves. Shak. They strain their warbling throats To welcome in the spring. Dryden.

An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.

eater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle. Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. Doddridge.

A nerve or tendon of an animal body. The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark vii. 35.

Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital, or first cervical, nerve.

ide a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.

Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.

ochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber. Sympathetic ink. (Chem.) See under Ink. -- Sympathetic nerve (Anat.), any nerve of the sympathetic system; especially, the axial chain of ganglions and nerves belonging to the sympathetic system. -- Sympathetic powd…

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.

f or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.

An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew. Shak. And I myself, who sat apart And watched them, waxed in every limb; I felt the thews of Anakim, The pules of a Titan's heart. Tennyson.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial.

Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf. Gray.

a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. Trochlear nerve. See Pathetic nerve, under Pathetic.

ertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.

Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.