How to Use nerve fiber in a Sentence

nerve fiber

noun

• That's the tract of nerve fibers that transports visual messages to and connects the back of the eye with the brain.
  — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2017
• The ends of the auditory nerve look like green jellyfish; the sheaths around the nerve fibers licorice red.
  — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
• Stick with us: The vagus is the largest and longest of the 12 nerve fibers emanating from your brain.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 Jan. 2020
• These drift across the synapses to nerve fibers, sparking more current.
  — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
• In order to do so, surgeons have to coax the nerve fibers to grow to the right place, which Sahel says could take months or even years.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• These cells cause the bones of the spine to become porous, allowing nerve fibers to fill the empty spaces.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Myelin's purpose is to prevent electrical loss as the nerve fibers transfer pulses up and down the body.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2017
• The researchers revealed that the small nerve fibers near a tumor were, at least sometimes, essential to the tumor's growth.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 12 Sep. 2019
• Each chromatophore is attached to muscle fibers that line the skin's surface, and those fibers, in turn, are connected to a nerve fiber.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
• The immune systems eats away at the fatty sheathing that covers and protects the nerve fibers in these areas (myelin).
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 22 Oct. 2018
• After many specialist visits and tests, an MRI found damage to the nerve fibers, or white matter, in her brain.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• The most advanced groups are targeting a narrower set of nerve fibers within a nerve.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2016
• But the signals are faint, and small movements of the fine nerve fiber relative to the recording electrode can change or obscure the nerve’s subtle message.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 4 Mar. 2020
• After about 10 minutes, muscle and nerve fibers become too cold to function.
  — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 22 Dec. 2017
• Their lysosomes don’t make enough of an enzyme that helps create and sustain the protective coating around nerve fibers.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• The swelling stimulates adjacent nerve fibers and triggers pain.
  — Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 16 June 2015
• The nerve fibers themselves do the rest of the job, modifying the signal that reaches them so that only the train of 25 pulses remains to propagate up into the brain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2015
• White matter is made up of dense nerve fibers that connect neurons in different areas of the brain, forming networks.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2017
• According to the latest research, one culprit may be pain-sensing nerve fibers deep within the inner ear.
  — Joyce Cohen, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Six of those were known to be involved in cell migration and growth of nerve fibers, both essential in creating connections and networks in the brain.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2018
• Then there are thin, uninsulated nerve fibers that fire more slowly and produce what’s called second pain, which is a duller burning sensation that lasts a bit longer.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 17 Apr. 2018
• In the early stages of dry macular degeneration, there are yellow deposits, called drusen, under the retina, which is the nerve tissue that lines the inside of the eye that detects light and sends nerve fibers to the brain.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Metachromatic leukodystrophy is the result of a genetic mutation, and leads to a breakdown of the protective covering around nerve cells and nerve fibers, known as myelin.
  — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Scans of the study participants’ brain before their surgery showed that the degree of damage to certain nerve fiber tracts correlated with the severity of their depression.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2023
• Jordt says the tear gas agent activates receptors on the peripheral sensory nerves, a sinuous network of nerve fibers found all over our body.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2019
• Such pathways, composed of nerve fibers, transmit information from the body’s five senses and allow regions of the brain to communicate with each other.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
• The disease causes the immune system to attack myelin, the insulation around nerve fibers, prompting symptoms that can include muscle weakness, pain, and vision loss.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• After 90 days, axons — the nerve fibers that carry neurons’ outgoing messages — had connected with host neurons.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2019
• Osteocalcin, in turn, tamps down activity in the parasympathetic nervous system–nerve fibers that slow heart rate and breathing.
  — Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 12 Sep. 2019
• The chemicals act on these pain-sensing nerve fibers to enhance their sensitivity to things such as temperature, touch and other chemicals, as part of the guarding response.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024