INNERVATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does innervate mean? 

• INNERVATE (verb)
  The verb INNERVATE has 2 senses:

1. supply nerves to (some organ or body part)

2. stimulate to action

  Familiarity information: INNERVATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNERVATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they innervate    ... he / she / it innervates   
Past simple: innervated   
Past participle: innervated   
-ing form: innervating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply nerves to (some organ or body part)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "innervate" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

innervation (the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stimulate to action

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

innervate a muscle or a nerve

Hypernyms (to "innervate" is one way to...):

excite; stimulate (act as a stimulant)

Domain category:

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

A nerve that originates from the lumbar nerves and innervates the anterior region of the thigh.

(Femoral Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

A visual representation of the bands of skin innervated by the sensory nerves used for assessment.

(Dermatome Map, NCI Thesaurus)

The area of skin innervated by a single posterior spinal nerve (sensory nerve).

(Dermatome, NCI Thesaurus)

The abnormally dilated pupil is caused by damage to postganglionic parasympathetic fibers innervating the eye.

(Holmes-Adie Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning of the F18, sympathetic innervated regions can be visualized, such as those in pheochromocytoma.

(Fluorine F-18 6-Fluorodopamine, NCI Thesaurus)

The smallest branch of the ophthalmic nerve that innervates the lacrimal gland, conjunctiva, and the lateral portion of the upper eyelid.

(Lacrimal Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

It is innervated by cholinergic nerve fibers.

(Eccrine Sweat Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

Involuntary contraction of the muscle fibers innervated by a motor unit.

(Fasciculation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A nerve that innervates the sole of the foot.

(Plantar Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

Intermittent, incomplete or complete paralysis with or without tremors to any of the organs or body parts innervated by the phrenic nerve.

(Phrenic Nerve Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)