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nerve
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- pronunciation:
- nuhrv
- features:
- Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
Nerves are long, very thing fibers inside your body that carry messages to and from the brain and other parts of the body. Nerves let you feel heat and pain and other things.
Nerves give you the sense of touch. If you didn't have nerves going through your hand and arm and up to your brain, you would not be able to feel anything with your fingers. |
| definition 2: |
When you have nerve, it means that you have courage to do something difficult.
It took a lot of nerve for Paul to tell the truth about breaking his mother's favorite necklace.- synonyms:
- backbone, courage
- similar words:
- balls, bravery
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| definition 3: |
Sometimes having nerve means having courage to do something that other people would feel ashamed to do.
Jamie had a lot of nerve to ask the teacher such a rude question.- similar words:
- check, courage
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groups of nerves |
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bundle, system |
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some actions of nerves |
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feel, hear, hurt, see, smell, taste |
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some body parts associated with nerves |
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brain, skin, spinal cord |
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some conditions related to nerves |
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poliomyelitis |
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some descriptions of nerves |
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numb, sensitive |
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some kinds of nerves |
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motor, spinal cord |
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some parts of nerves |
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cell, ending, fiber, tissue |
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some things nerves sense |
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pain, pressure, temperature |
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