单词 | space nerve |
释义 | > as lemmasspace nerve space nerve n. [after German Raumnerv or French nerf de l'espace (both E. Cyon 1877, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 85 1285)] Anatomy (now disused) a branch of the auditory nerve that supplies the semicircular canals. ΚΠ 1878 Mind 3 563 There should..be distinguished from the nerve of hearing in the eighth pair (which has besides, in fact, two origins) the ‘nerve of space’.] 1880 H. C. Bastian Brain xxiii. 470 It must, moreover, not be forgotten that, according to Cyon.., what is named by him as the Space-nerve (Raumnerv) is also bound up with..the trunk commonly known as the ‘Auditory’. 1925 T. McCrae Osler's Princ. Pract. Med. (ed. 10) 1074 The central connections of the nuclei of the ‘space nerve’ with those of the ocular muscles are very close. < as lemmas |
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