Nerves

Definitions: Nerves

Nerves

Noun

1. An uneasy state; "he suffered an attack of nerves".

2. Control of your emotions; "this kind of tension is not good for my nerves".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nerves" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

NERVES

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Nerves

Pain

Hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, grate upon the nerves, jar upon the feelings; wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart, rend the heart; make the heart bleed; tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings; draw tears from the eyes.

Strength

Blut und Eisen; coelitus mihi vires; du fort au diable; en habiles gens; ex vi termini; flecti non frangi; "he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill"; "inflexible in faith invincible in arms".

Crosswords: Nerves

This is a battle of nerves between John and me. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

My nerves are shot! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

But you know, you do have a way of getting on people's nerves. (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

Humans don't -have- arm nerves! (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

You're starting to get on my nerves (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain ("Great Balls of Fire"; performing artist: Jerry Lee Lewis)

Nothing But Nerves (1942)

My Nerves Oh (1935)

Shattered Nerves (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Case of Nerves (Perfect Heroes Series, 4) (reference)

• Brain and Nerves (Look at Your Body) (reference)

• Hope and Help for Your Nerves (reference)

• Just Dads: Nerves of Steel, Wills of Iron, Hearts of Pudding (reference)

• Nerves of Government (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• 45 Miles of Nerves [US] (reference)

• Nerves of Steel (reference)

• On the Wires of Our Nerves (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a proton beam from the brain during CT scans. Using dozens of CT slices, a computer produced this three-dimensional representation of the eyes and optic nerves (blue and green). The brain stem (green) , and the tumor (red). The yellow line shows the proton beam field-shaping aperture.Credit: unknown photographer.

Line drawing showing the lining of the GI tract: colorectal (muscularis). The walls of the digestive tract have four layers of tissue: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa. The inner-most layer is the mucosa, a membrane that forms a continuous lining of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus. In the large bowel, this tissue contains cells that produce mucus to lubricate and protect the smooth inner surface of the bowel wall. Connective tissue and muscle separate the muscosa from the second layer, the submucosa, which contains blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves and mucus-producing glands. Next to the submucosa is the muscularis externa, consisting of two layers of muscle fibers-one that runs lengthwise and one that encircles the bowel. The fourth layer, the serosa, is a thin membrane that produces fluid to lubricate the outer surface of the bowel so that it can slide against adjacent organs.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

M. leprae is the cause of leprosy, or Hansen's disease. A slow-multiplying bacterium, it mainly affects the skin, nerves, and mucous membranes. In 1999, the world incidence was estimated to be 640,000, and in 2000, 738,284 cases were identified.Credit: CDC.

White Finger Disease, or Raynaud's Syndrome, is essentially a problem involving a lack of blood to the nerves, and in this case, was caused by the constant vibration of the hands and arms.Credit: CDC.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 17, Dijon, France. : Seargent Van Valkenburg, using hypnosis to calm nerves.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Awaken Your Glands and Nerves and Regain the Vigor of Youth in 24 Hours!.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

She found it rather trying to her nerves at first, to meet with rabbits as big as horses / Birch.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Now that the play was over his nerves cried for some further adventure.

With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The eye nerves sit directly above the pituitary gland. (references)

Splints may relieve pressure on the muscles and nerves. (references)

These nerves control eye movements and facial expression. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "nerves": a fit of nerves ♦ a man with iron nerves ♦ attack of nerves ♦ be all nerves ♦ bundle of nerves ♦ cranial nerves ♦ exam nerves ♦ frayed nerves ♦ get on his nerves ♦ get on nerves ♦ get on one's nerves ♦ get on smb.'s nerves ♦ getting the nerves ♦ grate on smb.'s nerves ♦ grate on the nerves ♦ have one's nerves on edge ♦ Inhibitory nerves ♦ Intercentral nerves ♦ Intercostal Nerves ♦ it gets on my nerves ♦ jangle one's nerves ♦ jangle smb.'s nerves ♦ jangleed nerves ♦ Laryngeal Nerves ♦ pairs of cranial nerves ♦ Peripheral Nerves ♦ play on smb.'s nerves ♦ spinal accessory nerves ♦ Spinal Nerves ♦ Splanchnic Nerves ♦ steady one's nerves ♦ strain every nerves ♦ Thoracic Nerves ♦ travel nerves ♦ war of nerves. Additional references.

Containing "nerves": dead-from-the-nerves-down.

Albanian

nerva (blood). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الجسارة (intrepidity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

раздразнителност (ill humor, ill humour, impatience, inflammability, irascibility, irritability, petulance, temper), нервност (jim-jams, nervousness, twit, twitch), нервна система (sensorium), нерви (jitters, needle, needles), истерия (conniption, fit, vapors, vapours). (various references)

Chinese 

膽子 (courage), 神经 (nerve). (various references)

Czech

nervozita (flap, flutter, fuss, jitters, nervousness). (various references)

Danish

naesens nerver (nasal nerves), nervi carotici (carotid nerves), blærecentret (vesical centres, vesical nerves), blærenervecentret (vesical centres, vesical nerves), decussatio nervorum trochlearium (decussation of trochlear nerves), foelenerver (sensory nerves), foramina nervina (foramina for nerves), halvsidig global hjernenerveparese (unilateral global involvement of cranial nerves), hjernenerveganglier (ganglia of the cranial nerves), hjernenerveparese (paralysis of the cranial nerves), hjertenerverne (cardiac nerves), intercostalnerve-exstirpation (immobilization of intercostal nerves), ansae nervorum spinalium (ansae of the spinal nerves), kranienerverne (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), splanchnicusparese (paresis of the splanchnic nerves), pars spinalis verni accessorii (spinal roots of the accessory nerves), perifer polyneuropati (marked by paralysis, pain and wasting of muscles may be caused by exposure to organic solvents or lead, peripheral polyneuropathy, polyneuritis, simultaneous inflammation of a large number of the spinal nerves), perifere nervesystem (being branched from the central nervous system into all parts of the organism, peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system composed of nerves and ganglia), polyneuritis (marked by paralysis, pain and wasting of muscles may be caused by exposure to organic solvents or lead, peripheral polyneuropathy, polyneuritis, simultaneous inflammation of a large number of the spinal nerves), radix dorsalis (posterior root of the spinal nerves), radix ventralis nervorum spinalium (anterior root of the spinal nerves), sensoriske nerver (sensory nerves), spinalnervernes motoriske rod (anterior root of the spinal nerves), spinalnervernes posteriore rod (posterior root of the spinal nerves), intercostalnerve-resektion (resection of intercostal nerves). (various references)

Dutch

nervus nasociliaris (nasal nerves, nasociliary nerve), nervi capitales (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), nervi cardiaci (cardiac nerves), nervi carotici (carotid nerves), nervi cerebrales (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), nervi craniales (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), nervus nasalis (nasal nerves, nasociliary nerve), radix dorsalis (posterior root of the spinal nerves), decussatio nervorum trochlearicum (decussation of trochlear nerves), foramina nervosa (foramina for nerves), ganglia van de hersenzenuwen (ganglia of the cranial nerves), hersenzenuwen (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), syndroom van Garcin (unilateral global involvement of cranial nerves), sensorische zenuwen (sensory nerves), paralysis van de hersenzenuwen (paralysis of the cranial nerves), radix posterior nervorum spinalium (posterior root of the spinal nerves), radices spinales nervi accessorii (spinal roots of the accessory nerves), ansae nervorum spinalium (ansae of the spinal nerves), radix anterior nervorum spinalium (anterior root of the spinal nerves), verlamming van de hersenzenuwen (paralysis of the cranial nerves), perifeer zenuwstelsel (being branched from the central nervous system into all parts of the organism, peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system composed of nerves and ganglia), polyneuritis (marked by paralysis, pain and wasting of muscles may be caused by exposure to organic solvents or lead, peripheral polyneuropathy, polyneuritis, simultaneous inflammation of a large number of the spinal nerves), polyneuropathie (marked by paralysis, pain and wasting of muscles may be caused by exposure to organic solvents or lead, peripheral polyneuropathy, polyneuritis, simultaneous inflammation of a large number of the spinal nerves), radix ventralis nervorum spinalium (anterior root of the spinal nerves). (various references)

Finnish

polyneuriitti (marked by paralysis, pain and wasting of muscles may be caused by exposure to organic solvents or lead, peripheral polyneuropathy, polyneuritis, simultaneous inflammation of a large number of the spinal nerves), perifeerinen hermosto (being branched from the central nervous system into all parts of the organism, peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system composed of nerves and ganglia), kiihottaa hermoja (excite the nerves), käydä jonkun hermoille (get on somebody's nerves), hermostuttava (nerve-racking, trying to the nerves), hermostuttaa (irritate, set nerves on edge), hermostuminen (frayed nerves, nervous irritability, tense nerves), hermosota (war of nerves), hermokimppu (bundle of nerves), ääreishermosto (being branched from the central nervous system into all parts of the organism, peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system composed of nerves and ganglia). (various references)

French

audace. (various references)

German

nervt, Nerven (bug, get on smb.'s nerves, nerve, neural, neuritic). (various references)

Greek 

νεύρα (thews, veins). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצבים. (various references)

Hungarian

idegesség (flutter, jangled nerves, jitter, jitters, jumpiness, needle, nervousness, skittishness). (various references)

Italian

nervi, nervatura (branch, crimping, nervation, nervous system, plain rib, rib, ribbing, ribs, rolling, strengthening rib, veining, web, web of beam, web of rail, wing rib). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

癇 (temper). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush). (various references)

Korean 

� 경 (nerve, Nervous, Neural, neuron, Neurotic). (various references)

Manx

lheenree (fit of nerves). (various references)

Pig Latin

ervesnay

Portuguese

nervos vesicais (vesical centres, vesical nerves), nervos cardíacos (cardiac nerves), nervos carotídeos (carotid nerves), nervos cerebrais (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), nervos cranianos (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), nervos do coração (cardiac nerves), nervos sensitivos (sensory nerves), gânglios dos nervos cranianos (ganglia of the cranial nerves), asa nervosa espinal (ansae of the spinal nerves), paralisia dos nervos cranianos (paralysis of the cranial nerves), sistema nervoso periférico (being branched from the central nervous system into all parts of the organism, peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system composed of nerves and ganglia), polineuropatia periférica (marked by paralysis, pain and wasting of muscles may be caused by exposure to organic solvents or lead, peripheral polyneuropathy, polyneuritis, simultaneous inflammation of a large number of the spinal nerves), polinevrite (marked by paralysis, pain and wasting of muscles may be caused by exposure to organic solvents or lead, peripheral polyneuropathy, polyneuritis, simultaneous inflammation of a large number of the spinal nerves), raiz anterior do nervo espinhal (anterior root of the spinal nerves), raiz medular do nervo espinal (spinal roots of the accessory nerves), raiz medular do nervo espinhal (spinal roots of the accessory nerves), raiz posterior dos nervos raquidianos (posterior root of the spinal nerves), síndrome de Bertoletti-Garcin-Guillain (unilateral global involvement of cranial nerves), orifícios nervosos (foramina for nerves). (various references)

Romanian

nervi (Paddy, the needle), sistem nervos (nervous system). (various references)

Russian 

нервное состояние (jitters, willie, willies). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slabost živaca. (various references)

Spanish

nervios de la vejiga (vesical centres, vesical nerves), nervios cardíacos (cardiac nerves), nervios carotídeos (carotid nerves), nervios craneales (cerebral nerves, cranial nerves), asas de los nervios raquídeos (ansae of the spinal nerves), atacar los nervios a alguien (play on smb.'s nerves), decusación de los nervios patéticos (decussation of trochlear nerves), ganglios de los nervios craneales (ganglia of the cranial nerves), inmovilización de los nervios intercostales (immobilization of intercostal nerves), agujero para el nervio (foramina for nerves), pares craneales (cranial nerves, pairs of cranial nerves), una crisis nerviosa (attack of nerves), polineuritis (being branched from the central nervous system into all parts of the organism, peripheral nervous system, the part of the nervous system composed of nerves and ganglia), poner los nervios de punta (get on one's nerves), poner nervioso a alguien (get on one's nerves), raíces medulares del nervio espinal (spinal roots of the accessory nerves), raíz anterior de los nervios raquídeos (anterior root of the spinal nerves), raíz posterior de los nervios raquídeos (posterior root of the spinal nerves), resección de los nervios intercostales (resection of intercostal nerves), síndrome de Garcin (unilateral global involvement of cranial nerves), parálisis de los nervios craneales (paralysis of the cranial nerves). (various references)

Swedish

nerver. (various references)

Thai

ความเครีย�". (various references)

Turkish

yıpranmış sinirler (frayed nerves), tüm gücüyle çabalamak (be all for smth., strain every nerves), sinirlendirmek (aggravate, anger, annoy, bugger, disconcert, exacerbate, fret, get smb.'s dander up, get smb.'s shirt out, give the willies, grate, incense, irritate, jangle smb.'s nerves, make angry, needle, put smb. out of temper, rile, rough the wrong way, ruffle smb.'s temper, stimulate, string up, unnerve, unstring), sinirini zıplatmak (jangle smb.'s nerves), sinirini bozmak (annoy, get on one's nerves, Harry, irritate, rasp, unman, unnerve, unstring), sinirine dokunmak (get on one's nerves, get on smb.'s nerves), sinir savaşı (war of nerves), sinir küpü (bundle of nerves, high strung, highly strung), sinir etmek (annoy, bother, discomfit, get on one's nerves, irritate, jangle one's nerves, make angry, nettle, peeve, rasp, rattle, rub smb. up the wrong way, string up), sinir buhranı (a fit of nerves), sinir bozmak (annoy, bother, get on one's nerves, irritate, make angry, unhinge), asabını bozmak (get on smb.'s nerves). (various references)

Welsh

gieuol (neural, of nerves). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "nerves": innerves, unnerves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nerves" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erves, Jervas, Narjes, Narvaez, neaves, nerf, nerfs, nerv, nerva, nervasa, nerver, nervesa, nervese, nervet, nervey, Nervi, Nervii, nervo, nervoes, nervus, neuve, neuvo, nevea, nevers, Neves, Nevesky, nevez, Nevros, Nevruz, nieves, nirve, nirvs, Norges, norvex, Norvins, nurve, werves. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ernes, evens, nerve, never, neves, serve, seven, sever, sneer, veers, verse.

-2 letters: erne, erns, even, ever, eves, neve, rees, revs, seen, seer, sene, sere, veer, vees.

-3 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers, eve, nee, ree, res, rev, see, sen, ser, vee.

-4 letters: en, er, es, ne, re.

+1 letter: enviers, eveners, inverse, veiners, venders, veneers, venires, venters, versine.

+2 letters: avengers, conserve, converse, enfevers, engraves, enslaver, eversion, innerves, inverses, liveners, nerviest, nervines, nervules, nervures, overseen, oversewn, prevents, raveners, reinvest, reshaven, revenges, revenues, severing, sirvente, sniveler, universe, unnerves, unreeves, unserved, unversed, veneries, venomers, ventures, verbenas, verniers, vernixes, verseman, versemen, versines, veterans, vineries.

+3 letters: anteverts, averments, cheverons, conserved, conserver, conserves, conveners, converges, conversed, converser, converses, conveyers, deserving, endeavors, enervates, engravers, enslavers, eversions, governess, graveness, inventers, inverness, inversely, inversive, invertase, inverters, knaveries, lavenders, levanters, maneuvers, nerveless, nerviness, ovenwares, overlends, overmines, overspend, overspent, overtness, overtones, overweens, parvenues, reconveys, reinvades, reinvents, reinvests, reinvites, reinvokes, renovates, replevins, reserving, resolvent, restriven, revanches, revenants, revengers, revenuers, reverends, reversing, reversion, revesting, scavenger, scrivener, severance, sirventes, snivelers, sovereign, supervene, taverners, universes, unreserve, unrevised, veneerers, venerates, venturers, vergences, vernacles, vernicles, vestrymen, virescent.

+4 letters: adventures, averseness, breakevens, cleverness, conceivers, conservers, conversely, conversers, converters, covertness, cravenness, denervates, deservings, drivelines, drivenness, endeavours, enravished, enravishes, evergreens, fervencies, fervidness, gerundives, governessy, grapevines, gravestone, grievances, harvestmen, ingressive, innervates, intervales, intervenes, interviews, inveighers, inveiglers, inventress, inverities, invertases, manoeuvres, nonviewers, observance, overcleans, overdesign, overinsure, overlearns, overseeing, oversewing, overspends, overstrewn, perversion, preserving, prevalents, preventers, protensive, provenders, ravelments, reconvenes, reconverts, reengraves, reinvested, relevances, rendezvous, resolvents, responsive, reverences, reversions, revertants, revetments, scavengers, scriveners, serviceman, servicemen, severances, severeness, slovenlier, sovereigns, supernovae, supervened, supervenes, transverse, undeserved, unobserved, unreserved, unreserves, unresolved, veneerings, venerators, ventricles, ventricose, veratrines, verdancies, vernalizes, vernissage, vertigines, vespertine, vicereines, vignetters, virescence, virulences, volunteers, whensoever, wolverines.

+5 letters: adventurers, adventuress, adverseness, advertences, aventurines, averageness, beshivering, cadaverines, cantilevers, changeovers, contravenes, conversable, conversance, conveyorise, covenanters, cursiveness, desilvering, dissevering, divergences, diverseness, enervations, enterovirus, ergonovines, erosiveness, everlasting, foreverness, forgiveness, furtiveness, governances, governesses, governments, gravenesses, gravestones, heavenwards, herrenvolks, ingressives, insectivore, interfluves, interleaves, interveners, intervenors, interweaves, inventories, invernesses, investiture, ivermectins, maneuverers, mavourneens, menservants, misgoverned, nervelessly, nervinesses, nervosities, nervousness, nonveterans, observances, overburdens, overconsume, overdesigns, overearnest, overexpands, overextends, overgoverns, overhandles, overinsured, overinsures, overintense, overmanages, overmantels, overrespond, overseeding, overselling, oversetting, overspender, oversweeten, overtnesses, overwinters, papaverines, persevering, personative, perversions, prevalences, preventions, preventives, previsioned, privateness, provenances, providences, purveyances, ravagements, reconceives, reconvinces, reinvesting, rejuvenates, relevancies, reobserving, reservation, reservicing, resilvering, restiveness, resurveying, revealments, revelations, reverencers, reversional, reversioner, revilements, reviviscent, sansevieria, servantless, servileness, shivareeing, silveriness, sovereignly, sovereignty, stevedoring, subservient, supervening, timeserving, transceiver, transverses, travertines, turnvereins, unassertive, unbelievers, underserved, undervalues, undeserving, unharvested, untraversed, vegetarians, venerations, venturesome, verboseness, vernissages, vicegerents, viewfinders, vinedresser, virescences, viridescent, virulencies, vivandieres, vulneraries.

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