innervate
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They knew that vocal cord adduction is controlled by laryngeal motor neurons, so they began by tracing backward to find the neurons that innervate those motor neurons.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
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 • Oct. 8, 2021
Some parts of the body might be more sensitive to NaV1.7 blockers than others, because neurons that innervate one organ might have different populations of ion channels than neurons in another.
From Nature • Sep. 10, 2019
“As it goes down, the branches innervate the muscle, and then it goes down to the thumb over here,” he says.
From National Geographic • Jul. 29, 2016
Optic ganglia: are at the sides of the procerebrum and innervate the compound eyes.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
