Sentences with phrase «moves along the nerve»

As the sound pulse moves along the nerve pathway, the membrane changes locally from liquid (green) to more solid (red) form.

SLU researcher Tom Malone compares the way water moves along nerve fibers through the brain to a garden hose.

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The myelin sheath's role is to rapidly move electrical impulses along nerves, and if it is damaged — or demyelinated — then nerve function is compromised.

IT MAY seem corny to compare the slithering growth of nerve fibres in the developing human embryo to traffic moving along roads and freeways, but the analogy is apt.

When chemical phosphate groups are added to the receptors, they move from the cytoplasm and cluster on the edges of nerve cells along synapses — the spaces between nerve cells where messages transmit from one cell to another.

Doctors determined that it was the result of Hirschsprung's disease, a congenital disorder that occurs when the inside of the large intestine lacks certain nerve cells, called ganglion, that help stool move along to the bowel.

An active vagus nerve signals the intestines to rhythmically contract and move food along in a timely manner.