Word.ws English Dictionary

nerve impulses

nerve impulses is the plural of nerve impulse.

Meaning of nerve impulse

Noun

nerve impulse (plural nerve impulses)

  1. The signal transmitted along a nerve fibre, either in response to a stimulus (such as touch, pain or heat), or as an instruction (such as causing a muscle to contract).

Questions about nerve impulses

What is nerve impulses the plural of?
Nerve impulses is the plural of nerve impulse.

Words near nerve impulses in the dictionary

  1. nerve gas
  2. nerve gases
  3. nerve growth factor
  4. nerve growth factors
  5. nerve impulse
  6. nerve impulses
  7. nerve net
  8. nerve nets
  9. nerve of the pterygoid canal
  10. nerve of Wrisberg
  11. nerve out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nerve impulses (page history and authors); nerve impulse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nerve impulses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nerve_impulses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.