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Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs.

To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate.

Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.

unicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system. Carpenter.

Jumping, or inducing to jump; characterized by jumps; hence, extremely nervous.

g in the keystone forcibly. (b) (Mus.) To raise the pitch of. (c) Hence, fig., to produce nervous tension in.

A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.

The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.

ubstitution of this manner of writing for the common manner is a symptom of some kinds of nervous disease.

A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.

the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. -- n.

Nervousness. [R.]

relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal. Neural arch (Anat.), the cart…

f which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

A combining denoting a nerve, of or pertaining to a nerve or the nervous system.

Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm.