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nervo- (also † nerveo-), combining form of L. nervus nerve, as in † nervo-electric a. = neuro-electric adj. s.v. neuro-; so nervo-electricity; nervo-muscular a., concerned with both nerves and muscles; nervo-sanˈguineous a., of a nervous and sanguine temperament; nervo-ˈvital a., concerned with the nervous and vital functions.
[1792A. Galvani De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari iv. 48 Nerveo-electrici fluidi excursum per musculum ad nervum illum esse.] 1860A. C. Garratt Electro-Physiol. & Electro-Therapeutics iv. 216 (heading) Effects of heat and cold on the *nervo-electric batteries. Ibid. vi. 349 May not the brain be thus incessantly charged, says Dr. Watson, if indeed it be..‘an electric pile constantly in action’, discharging itself by the nerves at brief intervals, ‘when the tension of the nervo-electricity, developed, reaches a certain point’?
1822Good Study Med. IV. 659 The learned Pereboom..has divided palsy..into three species; a nervous, muscular and *nerveo-muscular. 1862Spencer First Princ. ii. xvii. §143 (1875) 391 The visible nervo-muscular actions. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 493 The nervo-muscular machinery seems to be poisoned by the toxins in the blood.
1884Harper's Mag. Aug. 440/2 Ultra-susceptible and *nervo-sanguineous subjects.
c1850in Cosmopolitan (1896) XX. 370/1 He will displace some of the *nervo-vital fluid from the passive brain and deposit it in his own instead. |