to excite a nerve

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• excite — /ik suyt /, v.t., excited, exciting. 1. to arouse or stir up the emotions or feelings of: to excite a person to anger; actions that excited his father s wrath. 2. to arouse or stir up (emotions or feelings): to excite jealousy or hatred. 3. to… …   Universalium

• excite — ex•cite [[t]ɪkˈsaɪt[/t]] v. t. cit•ed, cit•ing 1) to arouse or stir up the emotions or feelings of: to excite a person to anger[/ex] 2) to arouse or stir up (emotions or feelings); evoke; awaken: to excite interest[/ex] 3) to stir to action;… …   From formal English to slang

• excite — /əkˈsaɪt / (say uhk suyt), /ɛk / (say ek ) verb (t) (excited, exciting) 1. to arouse or stir up the feelings of: Christmas excites children. 2. to cause; awaken: to excite interest; to excite curiosity. 3. to stir to action; stir up: to excite a… …  

• Nerve — A bundle of fibers that uses electrical and chemical signals to transmit sensory and motor information from one body part to another. See nervous system. * * * A whitish cordlike structure composed of one or more bundles (fascicles) of myelinated …   Medical dictionary

• excite */ — UK [ɪkˈsaɪt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms excite : present tense I/you/we/they excite he/she/it excites present participle exciting past tense excited past participle excited 1) to make someone feel happy and enthusiastic about something… …   English dictionary

• excite — ex|cite [ıkˈsaıt] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: exciter, from Latin excitare, from citare to set in movement ] 1.) [not in progressive] to make someone feel happy, interested, or eager ▪ His playing is technically brilliant, but it… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• excite — verb (T) 1 excite interest/suspicion/jealousy etc to make someone feel a particular emotion: The court case has excited a lot of public interest. 2 excite comment/rumour etc if something excites comment etc, it makes people talk about it: The… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• excite — ex|cite [ ık saıt ] verb transitive * 1. ) to make someone feel happy and enthusiastic about something good that is going to happen: The prospect of working in Australia really excites me. a ) to make someone feel lively, nervous, or upset: We… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Merkel nerve ending — Merkel nerve endings are mechanoreceptors found in the skin and mucosa of vertebrates that provide touch information to the brain. The information they provide are those regarding pressure and texture. Each ending consists of a Merkel cell in… …   Wikipedia

• Law of specific nerve energies — The law of specific nerve energies, first proposed by Johannes Peter Müller in 1835, is that the nature of perception is defined by the pathway over which the sensory information is carried. Hence, the origin of the sensation is not important.… …   Wikipedia

• nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction       system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …   Universalium