NERVUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nervus mean? 

• NERVUS (noun)
  The noun NERVUS has 1 sense:

1. any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body

  Familiarity information: NERVUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

nerve; nervus

Hypernyms ("nervus" is a kind of...):

fascicle; fasciculus; fiber bundle; fibre bundle (a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers))

Meronyms (parts of "nervus"):

radicle ((anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve))

nerve fiber; nerve fibre (a threadlike extension of a nerve cell)

synapse (the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nervus"):

efferent; efferent nerve; motor nerve (a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands)

afferent; afferent nerve; sensory nerve (a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system)

cranial nerve (any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem)

depressor; depressor nerve (any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves)

musculospiral nerve; nervus radialis; radial nerve (largest branch of the brachial plexus; extends down the humerus to the lateral epicondyle where it divides into one branch that goes to the skin on the back of the hand and another that goes to the underlying extensor muscles)

splanchnic nerve (any of several nerves of the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system that innervate viscera and blood vessels)

nervus ischiadicus; sciatic nerve (arises from the sacral plexus and passes about halfway down the thigh where it divides into the common peroneal and tibial nerves)

nervus saphenus; saphenous nerve (a branch of the femoral nerve that supplies cutaneous branches to the inner aspect of the leg and foot)

cubital nerve; nervus ulnaris; ulnar nerve (a nerve running along the inner side of the arm and passing near the elbow; supplies intrinsic muscles of the hand and the skin of the medial side of the hand)

nervus spinalis; spinal nerve (any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal))