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Nervousness :: Nervousness (n.) State or quality of being nervous.

Feeling :: Feeling (n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects..

Nervosity :: Nervosity (n.) Nervousness.

Nervous :: Nervous (a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer..

Fidget :: Fidget (n.) A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria..

Strength :: Strength (n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.

Neural :: Neural (a.) relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal..

Pith :: Pith (v. t.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal..

Mesmerism :: Mesmerism (n.) The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism..

Hysteria :: Hysteria (n.) A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits..

Pithy :: Pithy (superl.) Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.

Gangliated :: Gangliated (a.) Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system..

Fornix :: Fornix (n.) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain..

Efferent :: Efferent (a.) Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent..

Nervous :: Nervous (a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.

Neuropathy :: Neuropathy (n.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.

Nervous :: Nervous (a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

Neurotomy :: Neurotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system..

Neuralgia :: Neuralgia (n.) A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion..

Turn :: Turn (n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn..

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