Definition of nervous

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Nervous (a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.

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Neurocord :: Neurocord (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm..
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..
Ataxy :: Ataxy (n.) The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.
Sturgeon :: Sturdy (n.) A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor..
Trisplanchnic :: Trisplanchnic (a.) Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; -- applied to the sympathetic nervous system..
Fornix :: Fornix (n.) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain..
Froth :: Froth (n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement..
Spleget :: Spleeny (a.) Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
Nerve :: Nerve (n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body..
Stria :: Stria (n.) A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain..
Neuromere :: Neuromere (n.) A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
Neurasthenia :: Neurasthenia (n.) A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.
Nervous :: Nervous (a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.
Tarantism :: Tarantism (n.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music..
Nervosity :: Nervosity (n.) Nervousness.
Nervine :: Nervine (a.) Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.
Osteophone :: Osteophone (n.) An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing..
Gangliated :: Gangliated (a.) Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system..
Neurosis :: Neurosis (n.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure..
Anaesthetization :: Anaesthetization (n.) The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics..
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