internuncial

[ in-ter-nuhn-shuhl ]

adjective

1. serving to announce or connect.
2. Anatomy. (of a nerve cell or a chain of nerve cells) serving to connect nerve fibers.

internuncial

/ ˌɪntəˈnʌnʃəl /

adjective

1. physiol (esp of neurons) interconnecting See internode
2. of, relating to, or emanating from a papal internuncio

Word History and Origins

Origin of internuncial¹

1835–45; < Latin internūnti ( us ) intermediary + -al ¹

Example Sentences

In the simplest societies, as in the simplest organisms, there is no "internuncial apparatus," as Hunter styled the nervous system.

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After a long period during which the directive centres communicate with various parts of the society through other means, there at last comes into existence an "internuncial apparatus," analogous to that found in individual bodies.

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But if there be something in the case besides live machinery and crossing telegrams, if there be a monarch mind inaccessible to the vulgar crowd of things and only conversing with them through the internuncial nerves, that spirit entity may itself be capable of existing forever in an ideal universe and of communing there face to face with its own kingly lineage and brood.

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Associated words: neurology, neurologist, neurography, neuron, lecithin, rete, plexus, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neurotic, sensorium, funiculus, ganglion, hilum, neurism, innervation, neuration, neuritis, neuropathic, nervine, neuroma, neuropathy, neuroid, neuric, neuricity, aneuria, glioma, neurosis, cinerea, cholesterin, perineurium, epineurium, internuncial. nerve, v. brace, strengthen, fortify, invigorate, energize. nervous, a. excitable, sensitive, timorous. nest, n. nidus; eyrie, aerie; retreat, den, haunt, resort.

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