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nerve
(redirected from ulnar nerve)

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nerve: see nervous system nervous system, network of specialized tissue that controls actions and reactions of the body and its adjustment to the environment. Virtually all members of the animal kingdom have at least a rudimentary nervous system.
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nerve
1. any of the cordlike bundles of fibres that conduct sensory or motor impulses between the brain or spinal cord and another part of the body
2. a large vein in a leaf
3. any of the veins of an insect's wing

nerve [nərv]
(neuroscience)
A bundle of nerve fibers or processes held together by connective tissue.


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He has been on the disabled list since early June after suffering an injured ulnar nerve, and was inching toward a possible return from that when he suffered the back injury.
Serial electrodiagnostic studies on the upper extremities of lead-exposed workers showed that the median nerve was more susceptible to the effects of lead than was the ulnar nerve (Chia et al.
In addition, reduced sensory nerve action potentials in the median and ulnar nerves alone, without documentation of neuropathy in additional nerves, cannot be used as evidence of a diffuse axonal polyneuropathy, since both of these nerves are commonly prone to entrapment neuropathies.
 
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