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possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous. "Nervous arms." Pope.

In a nervous manner.

State or quality of being nervous.

Lacking nerve or force; enervated. [R.]

The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.

ovement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

The science of sensation in relation to nervous action. H. Spenser.

The process of anæsthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anæsthetics.

The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connec…

d, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. -- Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of the tooth.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent course of the nervous infuence. Marshall Hall.

Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid secreted by the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. -- Cerebro-spinal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever (Med.), a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characteri…

e body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding. Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.

usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i

nt impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.