innervate
Example Sentences
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Your sensory neurons innervate all the muscles in your body, and from how much your muscles are stretched, you have a very visual—without actually looking—image of where your limbs are.
From Scientific American
Artificially innervated foam, or AiFoam, is a highly elastic polymer created by mixing fluoropolymer with a compound that lowers surface tension.
From Reuters
A rapid, shortened breathing cycle uses muscles in the neck and chest instead of the diaphragm, which is innervated by the vagus nerve responsible for calming the body.
From New York Times
Zhang and colleagues showed that bulge regions are highly innervated by sympathetic neurons, and that ablating the SNS using a neurotoxin molecule, or blocking the release of noradrenaline from sympathetic neurons, prevented stress-induced greying.
From Nature
A tool is not innervated like our skin, so how does our brain know when and where it is touched?
From Scientific American
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