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Areas with thinner skin or more nerve endings, like the upper lip and bikini line, are more sensitive than others, like the legs and back.
—Iman Balagam, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
Because the holes don't reach down to the nerve endings, use of the nanoceramic stars is reportedly painless – Stuer describes it as feeling like a skin scrub.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
Another potential reason for pain is long COVID’s ability to damage the body’s smallest nerve endings, a condition known as small-fiber neuropathy.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 6 Sep. 2024
An implant bypasses those dysfunctional nerve endings, directly stimulating the undamaged cochlear nerve itself.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1868, in the meaning defined above
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“Nerve ending.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20ending. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
nerve ending
noun
: a structure forming an end of a nerve axon that is distant from the cell body
Medical Definition
nerve ending
noun
: the structure in which the distal end of the axon of a nerve fiber terminates
called also nerve end
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