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Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

he muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.

Relating to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve.

The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.

The delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.

To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.

of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.

Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

d bone. Ethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.

rded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.

Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.

the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.

visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.

Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve. -- Fa"cial*ly, adv. Facial angle (Anat.), the angle, in a skull, included between a straight line (ab, in the illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this point to th…

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. Creecn.