English Dictionary: nerve deafness | by the DICT Development Group |
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Neropteral \Nerop"ter*al\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera. | |
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Nervate \Nerv"ate\, a. (Bot.) Nerved. | |
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Nervation \Ner*va"tion\, n. The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration. The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. --J. D. Hooker. | |
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Nerve \Nerve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nerved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nerving}.] To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm. | |
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Nerved \Nerved\, a. 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved. 2. (Bot.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. --Gray. | |
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Manna \Man"na\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], Heb. m[be]n; cf. Ar. mann, properly, gift (of heaven).] 1. (Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food. --Ex. xvi. 15. 2. (Bot.) A name given to lichens of the genus {Lecanora}, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food. 3. (Bot. & Med.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of {Fraxinus Ornus}, and {F. rotundifolia}, the manna ashes of Southern Europe. Note: {Persian manna} is the secretion of the camel's thorn (see {Camel's thorn}, under {Camel}); {Tamarisk manna}, that of the {Tamarisk mannifera}, a shrub of Western Asia; {Australian, manna}, that of certain species of eucalyptus; {Brian[87]on manna}, that of the European larch. {Manna grass} (Bot.), a name of several tall slender grasses of the genus {Glyceria}. they have long loose panicles, and grow in moist places. {Nerved manna grass} is {Glyceria nervata}, and {Floating manna grass} is {G. flu}. {Manna insect} (Zo[94]l), a scale insect ({Gossyparia mannipara}), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarisk tree in Arabia. | |
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Neuro-epidermal \Neu`ro-ep`i*der"mal\, a. [Neuro- + epidermal.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epiderms; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm. | |
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Neuropathic \Neu`ro*path"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease. | |
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Neuropathy \Neu*rop"a*thy\, n. [Neuro- + Gr. [?], [?], to suffer.] (Med.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve. | |
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Neuropod \Neu"ro*pod\, n. [Neuro- + -pod.] (Zo[94]l.) A neuropodous animal. --G. Rolleston. | |
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Neuropodous \Neu*rop"o*dous\, a. [Neuro- + -pod + -ous.] (Zo[94]l.) Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the neural side, as in most invertebrates; -- opposed to {h[91]mapodous}. --G. Rolleston. | |
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Neuropter \Neu*rop"ter\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Neuroptera. | |
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d8Insecta \[d8]In*sec"ta\, n. pl. [NL. See {Insect}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antenn[91], three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[91], opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See {Insect}, n. 2. (Zo[94]l.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See {Hexapoda}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined. Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders, viz.: {Hymenoptera}, as the bees and ants; {Diptera}, as the common flies and gnats; {Aphaniptera}, or fleas; {Lepidoptera}, or moths and butterflies; {Neuroptera}, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; {Coleoptera}, or beetles; {Hemiptera}, as bugs, lice, aphids; {Orthoptera}, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; {Pseudoneuroptera}, as the dragon flies and termites; {Euplexoptera}, or earwings; {Thysanura}, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these words in the Vocabulary. | |
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Neuropteran \Neu*rop"ter*an\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A neuropter. | |
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Neuropterous \Neu*rop"ter*ous\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Neuropteral. |