How to Use nerve impulse in a Sentence

nerve impulse

noun

• When light hits the rod and cone cells, nerve impulses are triggered and sent to the brain through the optic nerve.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2020
• Each nerve impulse—each twitch, each thought—travels through the brain by leaping from cell to cell.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• That's not much of a surprise, given that nerve impulses are driven by the exchange of ions across a nerve cell's membrane.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2018
• The retina converts light images into nerve impulses that are relayed to the brain to produce sight.
  — Harvard Health Letter, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Vocal cord paralysis occurs when the nerve impulses to the larynx — the area of the throat with the vocal cords — are disrupted, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 14 June 2023
• Thiamin Thiamin, otherwise known as vitamin B1 has been shown to play a role in the conduction of nerve impulses that are sent from the brain, says Halperin.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• That movement of ions is the basis for many of the body’s functions, like nerve impulses, muscle contractions and digestion.
  — Katie Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2018
• These vibrations make fluid inside your cochlea move, stimulating tiny hair cells that send nerve impulses to the brain via the auditory nerve.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 4 Feb. 2018
• For example, Moody says that vitamin B12, in particular, helps maintain red blood cells and provides some of the coating on our nerves that help conduct nerve impulses.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
• One group of receptors allows ions into a cell in response to serotonin, triggering nerve impulses.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2023
• The body has so many redundant circuits of interacting nerve impulses and hormones to control weight that tweaking one simply did not make a difference.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The researchers then tested whether each of these compounds could trigger a nerve impulse from the mosquitoes’ antennae to their brains, indicating that mosquitoes can sense the chemical.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
• The arm utilizes input from myoware muscle sensors, which detect nerve impulses, to create motion.
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
• Aldicarb is a carbamate, which works by preventing a certain enzyme from breaking down the chemical substances that transmit nerve impulses.
  — Alexander Braczkowski, National Geographic, 13 Apr. 2018
• The tunneling rate would change with different molecules, triggering nerve impulses that create the perceptions of different smells in the brain.
  — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
• Many venom components disable or kill by blocking the channels for sodium or other ions that are necessary for transmission of nerve impulses.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 17 Oct. 2019
• Glial cells, among other things, build sheaths of a fatty material called myelin, which acts as an insulator to isolate the electrical activity of nerve impulses.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 July 2018
• It had been suggested that some aspects of cognition were dependent upon the speed and efficiency of nerve impulses, which in turn depends on this insulation.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 July 2018
• These minerals help regulate muscle function, nerve impulses, and fluid balance within the body.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Although the use of anticholinergic (blocks nerve impulses) and anti-inflammatory nasal sprays such as Atropine and Ipratropium have been trialled with some success.
  — David King, CNN, 13 Dec. 2017
• According to Healthline, the alkaloids in poison hemlock can affect nerve impulse transmission to muscles, which eventually can kill the person through respiratory failure.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 6 Aug. 2021
• According to Healthline, the alkaloids in poison hemlock can affect nerve impulse transmission to muscles, which eventually can kill the person through respiratory failure.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
• The neuroscientist Otto Loewi dreamed of an experiment that proved nerve impulses are transmitted chemically.
  — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
• Suppression of cholinesterase can cause nerve impulses to be continuously transmitted, preventing muscle contractions from stopping—causing muscle spasms and, eventually, death.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2018
• Recordings of electrical activity and x-ray images confirmed that nerve impulses strategically activated specific muscles in free areas.
  — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 1 July 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024