Innervate Definition

ĭ-nûrvāt, ĭnər-
innervated, innervates, innervating
verb
To supply (a part of the body) with nerves.
Webster's New World
To stimulate (a nerve, muscle, etc.) to movement or action.
Webster's New World

Origin of Innervate

  • from in (“in”) + nervus (“nerve”) recorded since circa 1374, from Medieval Latin , from Latin nervus (“sinew”) + the Latin perfect passive participle suffixes of first conjugation verbs -ātus, -āta, and -ātum.

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Innervate Sentence Examples

  • They are, however, less excitable than are the nerve cells which innervate them.

  • In the Metanemertini, where the longitudinal stems lie inside the muscular body-wall, definite and metamerically placed nerve branches spring from them and divide dichotomously in the different tissues they innervate.

  • The nervous system is represented by an oesophageal collar and a suboesophageal ganglion, whence paired nerves pass outwards to innervate the anterior extremity and backwards towards its posterior end.

  • Poliomyelitis causes an overall loss of motor units; therefore, the remaining units must innervate many more muscle fibers than they did originally.

  • Sensory nerves supply or innervate particular regions of the body.

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Words Starting With

IININN

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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Words Starting With I and Ending With E

Starts With I & Ends With EStarts With IN & Ends With EStarts With I & Ends With TE

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With I9 Letter Words Ending With E