Sentence examples for nerve connected from inspiring English sources

No ethical problem exists with a pacemaker to protect the heart, or with tomorrow's computer chip implanted near the optic nerve connected to a camera to enable many of the blind to see.

He notes that some primate species were omitted in the comparative analysis, and he points out that that the skull has a large opening on the snout for the nerve connected to the whiskers, which tend to be more developed in nocturnal mammals.

In Desmodus, neurons in the nerve connected to the small heat-sensing pits near the bat's nose splice together different parts of the Trpv1 gene to produce a version of the ion channel that's shorter at one end than the version made by other animals, including bats that feed on fruit, nectar, or insects, the team reports in tomorrow's Nature.

In the experiment, the frog's leg was almost completely severed from its body, leaving only the sciatic nerve connected, and electric current was then applied from the body to the leg.

Your fingers may hit a nerve connected to the stomach, and it will soothe you.

The nerve connecting Jacobson's organ to the brain is a branch of the olfactory nerve.

I was found to have a 2.5-centimeter acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor of the nerve connecting the ear to the brain; it occurs in about 2 of every 100,000 people.

Thus, the optic nerve is really a central tract, rather than a nerve, connecting two regions of the nervous system, namely, the layer of bipolar cells, and the cells of the lateral geniculate body, the latter being a visual relay station in the diencephalon (the rear portion of the forebrain).

The optic nerve connects the eye to the brain.

In one case, they snipped the nerve connecting the brain to the beak.

Several weeks later, although hearing sensitivity had recovered to normal levels, activity in the auditory nerve connecting the inner ear to the brain remained impaired.