neurilityn.
/njᵿˈrɪlᵻti/, /njʊəˈrɪlᵻti/, U.S. /n(j)ʊˈrɪlᵻdi/ Physiology. Now rare or disused.
The property of nerve tissue of being able to conduct impulses. Later also: neural nature (rare).
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innervation1832
nervism1837
nerve force1850
nervation1851
neurility1860
neuricity1866
neurism1873
tonus1902
gamone1942
1860 G. H. Lewes Physiol. Common Life II. viii. 9 I propose two names: Sensibility..as the property of ganglionic substances; and Neurility, as the property of nerve-fibre... When a nerve-fibre is stimulated, its Neurility is called into play.
1860 G. H. Lewes Physiol. Common Life II. 19 Neurility simply means the property which the nerve-fibre has, when stimulated, of exciting contraction in a muscle, secretion in a gland, and sensation in a ganglionic centre.
1879 N. Smyth Old Faiths in New Light (1882) vii. 300 So long as sensibility and neurility..cannot be shown to be necessarily related and convertible.
1914 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 11 107 Mr. Dearborn made suggestions as to the possible neurility of euphoria and the sthenic index.
1952 C. G. de Muylder ‘Neurility’ of Kidney i. 2 There is more than one test for establishing the nervous nature of a fiber or cell; among these ‘marks’ of ‘neurility’ are: the shape or contour, the internal structure, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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