8 sentences with 'nerve'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nerve and other words derived from it.
• « There are two bands of nerve fibers that help control erectile ability, and they both cross the surface of the prostate. »
• « Generally, surgeons severed the two bands of nerve fibers in the penis to remove the prostate; impotence was the inevitable result. »
• « I had read that when both nerve bands are preserved, 20 percent of men over 50 are impotent; and when only one is saved, it rises to 40 percent. »
• « In some people, barbiturates cause muscle, nerve or joint pain. Sometimes they also cause restlessness and delirium. »
• « The first nerve transmitter to be discovered was acetylcholine, which enhances the contraction of skeletal muscles as well as those of the stomach and other organs. »
• « The stomach is connected to the brain via the vagus nerve, which reaches a place known as the "hiccup centre". Here it stimulates another nerve, the phrenic nerve, which travels down to the diaphragm, exciting it and producing the contraction. »
• « But after painstaking research, Dr Zuker decided to use a branch of the fifth nerve, which transmits the impulses for biting and chewing. His technique also increased the child's ability to pronounce sounds that require closing the lips, and reduced the sagging of the lower lip. »
• « Because it has no nerve endings, the brain can be burned, frozen or cut without the slightest sensation. In fact, neurosurgeons often perform operations without anaesthetising the patient. (Headaches are located outside the brain). »