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Definition: Innervation |
InnervationNoun1. The neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland. 2. The distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "innervation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Innervation \In`ner*va"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression innervation.]. (references) |
"Innervation" is a common misspelling or typo for: enervation. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | 1. the distribution or supply of nerves to a part. 2. the supply of nervous energy or of nerve stimulus sent to a part. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: InnervationSynonym: excitation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Innervation |
| Specialty definitions using "innervation": Facial Nerve Injuries ♦ Holm theory ♦ Intercostal Nerves ♦ Median Nerve, Muscle Denervation, Muscular Disorders, Atrophic, Musculocutaneous Nerve ♦ Obturator Nerve ♦ Peroneal Nerve, Pupil Disorders ♦ Splanchnic Nerves, Sural Nerve ♦ Tibial Nerve, Trigeminal Nerve Diseases. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Innervation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (innervation), German (innervation), Swedish (innervation). |
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Health | Not only do traumatic lesions affect erectile ability, but disorders leading to peripheral neuropathy may impair neuronal innervation of the penis or of the sensory afferents. (references) | |
Constriction of the trabecular smooth muscle and helicine arteries induced by sympathetic innervation makes the penis flaccid, with blood pressure in the cavernosal sinuses of the penis near venous pressure. (references) | ||
In its most common form, it is initiated by a central nervous system event that integrates psychogenic stimuli (perception, desire, etc.) and controls the sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation of the penis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Innervation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Innervation" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 50 | 48,117 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "innervation": innervation-dependent, innervation-independent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
innervation muscle | 2 |
innervation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "innervation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 激动 (inflammatory, Suscitate, Suscitating). (various references) | |
Danish | innervation. (various references) | |
Dutch | innervatie. (various references) | |
French | innervation (f), innervation. (various references) | |
German | Innervation. (various references) | |
Greek | εννεύρωση. (various references) | |
Italian | innervazione. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innervationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inervação. (various references) | |
Swedish | innervation. (various references) | |
Thai | การมีเส้นประสาทไปถึง. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự làm cho rắn rỏi, sự làm cho có gân cốt, sự làm cho cứng cáp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "innervation": innervations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "innervation": hyperinnervation, reinnervation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "innervation": hyperinnervations, reinnervations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "innervation" (pronounced 'In`ner*va"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-n-n-n-o-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: antivenin, invention, nervation, nonnative, vernation. | |
-3 letters: anointer, innovate, inventor, reanoint, triennia, venation. | |
-4 letters: enation, entrain, environ, inertia, intoner, inviter, ternion, tinnier, vintner, vitrain, vitrine. | |
-5 letters: anoint, aroint, atoner, eonian, inaner, innate, intern, intine, intone, intron, invent, invert, invite, naiver, nannie, narine, nation, native, natron, nonart, norite, novena, orient, ornate, ratine, ration, ravine, rennin, renvoi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-n-n-n-o-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: innervations. | |
+2 letters: reinnervation. | |
+3 letters: noninteractive, reinnervations. | |
+4 letters: involuntariness. | |
+5 letters: anticonservation, environmentalism, environmentalist, hyperinnervation. | |
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