Nerve in example sentence

If you're a human, you have about 400 different kinds of receptors, and the brain knows what you're smelling because of the combination of receptors and nerve cells that they trigger, sending messages up to the brain in a combinatorial fashion.

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In this simulation, each black dot is one nerve cell.

Galvani showed that a frog's legs twitched when he connected the lumbar nerve to a source of electrical current.

So each nerve cell with the right genetic makeup will spontaneously produce a receiver that allows us to control its function.

And it takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal, terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions and not make our housing a commodity, but make it something that bubbles up from seminal sources.

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