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Another potential reason for pain is long COVID’s ability to damage the body’s smallest nerve endings, a condition known as small-fiber neuropathy.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 6 Sep. 2024
An implant bypasses those dysfunctional nerve endings, directly stimulating the undamaged cochlear nerve itself.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
Your brain has no nerve endings, so a pain in the brain is not like having a pain in the neck.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
Platypus bills contain specialized nerve endings that detect the tiny electrical currents generated by the muscular contrast of their prey.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1868, in the meaning defined above
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“Nerve ending.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20ending. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
Kids Definition
nerve ending
noun
: a structure forming an end of a nerve axon that is distant from the cell body
Medical Definition
nerve ending
noun
: the structure in which the distal end of the axon of a nerve fiber terminates
called also nerve end
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