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a living wire that fires at 270 mph just to tell you the stove is hot
means A nerve is a fiber that carries signals between the brain and the rest of the body — and, by extension, both raw courage and the brazen audacity to overstep.
from From Latin nervus, meaning 'sinew' or 'tendon' — the tough cords that move the body — which is itself related to Greek neuron, 'sinew' or 'nerve.' For centuries 'nerve' meant literal strength and stringy tissue, which is why a vigorous argument still has 'sinew' and a bold person has 'nerve.' Only later did anatomists narrow it to the body's signal-carrying fibers, while everyday speech kept the older flavor of toughness — and added the cheeky sense of 'the nerve!' for someone with too much of it.
- top speed
- signals race up to 270 mph
- longest one
- sciatic nerve runs hip to foot
- vagus reach
- wanders from brain to gut
- no pain
- the brain itself feels nothing
- funny bone
- that zing is the ulnar nerve
vagus nerve — the longest cranial nerve in the human body, running from brainstem to abdomen
optic nerve — transmits visual information from the retina to the brain in all vertebrates
sciatic nerve — the thickest nerve in the human body, running from lower spine through each leg