nervewayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

nerveway (複数形 nerveways)

1. An axon.
   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 73:

     He sutured the pieces together like a microsurgeon reattaching a severed nerveway.

   • 2005, Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, New American Poets (page 128)

     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.

   • 2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat:

     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.