Sentences with phrase «pass along the nerve»

Touch receptors in your skin sense the insect and activate an electrical current that passes along nerves until it reaches your brain, which registers the fly's presence and instigates a response.

Her team is currently examining the ion channels that open and close to allow the flow of ions as electrical impulses pass along the nerve cell membrane.

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While you nurse your nerves, I'm going to pass along a few miscellaneous tips and tricks that I've learned along the way.

When one wafts into our nostrils, these receptors send nerve signals to sensory way stations called glomeruli, which pass them along to the brain for interpretation — «Oh, a rose!»

When an electrical signal arrives at a nerve terminal and needs to be passed along to the next neuron, neurotransmitters, or chemical messengers, packed in vesicles mediate this process.

The cochlea transmits sound information through these nerves to the spiral ganglion, which then passes along those messages to the brain.

Radial nerve paralysis is the most common nerve injury in dogs: it can be easily damaged by trauma as it passes laterally along the humerus.