nerveway
nerveway noun: an axon.
Noun
nerveway (plural nerveways)
- An axon.
- He sutured the pieces together like a microsurgeon reattaching a severed nerveway.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 73
- Even though it was something the painter didn't think about (with words) she recalled the metallic flavor of minerals (how the stars must taste) scratching at the root of her tongue, which led to nerveways of the bones where the imprint of all symbols surfaces to the fingers, where spirits ride...2005, Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, New American Poets, page 128
Examples of nerveway in a sentence
- It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage.2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat:
- His lips moved, and he looked at her as if the time inside his head had slowed to a crawl, as if the nerveways in his brain were clogged with too much information.2012, Daniel Pearlman, And Baby Makes Five:
Forms of nerveway
| plural | nerveways |
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Origin of nerveway
From nerve + way.
Questions about nerveway
- What does nerveway mean?
- Nerveway means an axon.
- How do you use nerveway in a sentence?
- It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage.
- What part of speech is nerveway?
- Nerveway is a noun.
- What is the plural of nerveway?
- The plural of nerveway is nerveways.
Words near nerveway in the dictionary
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