How to Use nerve fiber in a Sentence

nerve fiber

noun
  • Give your brain the right fuel to build proteins and maintain nerve fibers.
    — Ankur Bindal, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • These drift across the synapses to nerve fibers, sparking more current.
    — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The relevant nerve fibers cross from left-to-right in the lower part of the brain.
    — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The immune cells are located near nerve fibers in the liver.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • That nerve fiber needs to be insulated in order to work.
    — Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • After a spinal cord injury, the body sends out signals that tell nerve fibers to stop growing.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That's the tract of nerve fibers that transports visual messages to and connects the back of the eye with the brain.
    — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The signal travels through nerve fibers at up to 30 meters per second.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The ends of the auditory nerve look like green jellyfish; the sheaths around the nerve fibers licorice red.
    — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The most advanced groups are targeting a narrower set of nerve fibers within a nerve.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2016
  • Damage to the cord often leads to cell death and prevents nerve fibers from reconnecting.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • These cells cause the bones of the spine to become porous, allowing nerve fibers to fill the empty spaces.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Myelin's purpose is to prevent electrical loss as the nerve fibers transfer pulses up and down the body.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Myelin is the protective coating around nerve fibers and is crucial for proper nerve function.
    — New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The swelling stimulates adjacent nerve fibers and triggers pain.
    — Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 16 June 2015
  • In order to do so, surgeons have to coax the nerve fibers to grow to the right place, which Sahel says could take months or even years.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The immune system attacks the myelin, or protective sheath, that covers nerve fibers.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 8 June 2024
  • Its nerve fibers follow this network of blood vessels throughout your body to reach vital organs, from the heart and lungs to the gut.
    — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
  • After about 10 minutes, muscle and nerve fibers become too cold to function.
    — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Each chromatophore is attached to muscle fibers that line the skin's surface, and those fibers, in turn, are connected to a nerve fiber.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The immune systems eats away at the fatty sheathing that covers and protects the nerve fibers in these areas (myelin).
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 22 Oct. 2018
  • Their lysosomes don’t make enough of an enzyme that helps create and sustain the protective coating around nerve fibers.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The cells extended nerve fibers in both directions, toward the head and tail, to connect with the host spinal tissue.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The researchers revealed that the small nerve fibers near a tumor were, at least sometimes, essential to the tumor's growth.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 12 Sep. 2019
  • White matter is made up of dense nerve fibers that connect neurons in different areas of the brain, forming networks.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2017
  • The most common side effects are linked to unwanted activation of nerve fibers that control the voice box and throat.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
  • According to the latest research, one culprit may be pain-sensing nerve fibers deep within the inner ear.
    — Joyce Cohen, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • This stimulation to the brain is thought to interfere with the pain signal that the nerve fibers would otherwise transmit.
    — Tim Denison, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2015
  • Scarring frequently gets in the way of nerve fiber regrowth, while nerve cells usually cannot regenerate on their own.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 June 2026
  • Gray matter consists of regions of nerve cell bodies and branching nerve fibers called dendrites, as well as points of connection between nerve cells.
    — Christopher M. Filley, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2026

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