nerve fibre

collocation in English

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nerve
noun
uk
/nɜːv/us
/nɝːv/
a group of long, thin fibres (= structures like threads) that carry information or instructions between the brain and other parts of ...
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fibre
noun
uk
/ˈfaɪ.bər/us
/ˈfaɪ.bɚ/
any of the thread-like parts that form plant or artificial material and can be made ...
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(Definition ofnerveandfibrefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Action potentials recorded from inside anervefibre.
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The effect of calcium on the myelinatednervefibre.
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Position of growth cones within the retinalnervefibrelayer of fetal ferrets.
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Thenervefibrelayer had very few astrocytes and the basal membranes of the capillaries were thicker.
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This causesnervefibredamage in the optic nerve head and leads to visual defects, progressing to blindness.
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Also, she discovered that when two nerve fibres are close in proximity, the activity of a singlenervefibrecan generate activity in a nearbynervefibre.
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The divisions are none other than the beginnings of thisnervefibrenet.
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A single afferentnervefibrebranches to innervate up to 90 such endings.
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Two separate neural pathways have been identified within the zebrafish gill arches both the motor and sensorynervefibrepathways.
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Thenervefibrethat connects the olfactory mucosa to the olfactory bulb ends in this region of the brain.
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Information in eachnervefibreis represented by the rate of action potentials as well as the particular timing of individual action potentials.
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The region of the basilar membrane supplying the inputs to a particular afferentnervefibrecan be considered to be its receptive field.
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To achieve this, they developed a voltage-clamp technique to demonstrate that impulse transmission relied upon the selective permeability of thenervefibremembrane to particular ions.
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In ophthalmology, scanning laser polarimetry utilises the birefringence of the opticnervefibrelayer to indirectly quantify its thickness, which is of use in the assessment and monitoring of glaucoma.
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