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nerveway en · NOUN

Etymology

From nerve + way.

Meanings

1. An axon.
   • I can't even say I saw the thing. It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage. 2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat:
   • He sutured the pieces together like a microsurgeon reattaching a severed nerveway. 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 73:
   • Even though it was something the painter didn't think about (with words) she recalled the metallic flavor of minerals (how the stars must taste) scratching at the root of her tongue, which led to nerveways of the bones where the imprint of all symbols surfaces to the fingers, where spirits ride horses through the colors needed to form any coherent universe. 2005, Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, New American Poets, page 128:
   • His lips moved, and he looked at her as if the time inside his head had slowed to a crawl, as if the nerveways in his brain were clogged with too much information. 2012, Daniel Pearlman, And Baby Makes Five:

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