Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "nerve" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

animal brain brainstem fingertips human human body organism person's body teeth tongue

Derived Terms

Jacobson nerve Vidian nerve Wrisberg's nerve abducens nerve abducent nerve abnerval accessory nerve acoustic nerve alveolar nerve auditory nerve auriculotemporal nerve binervate buccal nerve bundle of nerves cavernous nerve cervical nerve ciliary nerve cochlear nerve cranial nerve deep petrosal nerve deep temporal nerve denervate denervated eighth cranial nerve eighth nerve eleventh cranial nerve facial nerve fifth cranial nerve fifth nerve first cranial nerve fourth cranial nerve freshman's nerve frontal nerve get on one's nerves get on somebody's nerves get on someone's last nerve glossopalatine nerve glossopharyngeal nerve greater occipital nerve greater petrosal nerve hit a nerve hit a raw nerve hold one's nerve hypogastric nerve hypoglossal nerve inferior alveolar nerve inferior laryngeal nerve infraorbital nerve innervate innerve intermediate nerve ischiatic nerve keep one's nerve lacrimal nerve laryngeal nerve lateral pectoral nerve lateral pterygoid nerve lesser occipital nerve lesser petrosal nerve lingual nerve long ciliary nerve lose one's nerve mandibular nerve masseteric nerve maxillary nerve medial pterygoid nerve median nerve mental nerve midnerve motor nerve musculospiral nerve nasal nerve nasociliary nerve nasopalatine nerve nerval nervate nervation nerve agent nerve cell nerve center nerve centre nerve cord nerve ending nerve fiber nerve fibre nerve gas nerve growth factor nerve impulse nerve net nerve of Wrisberg nerve of the pterygoid canal nerve out nerve rack nerve trunk nerve up nerve up nerve wrack nerve-jangling nerve-rack nerve-racked nerve-racking nerve-rackingly nerve-shredder nerve-shredding nerve-wrack nerve-wracked nerve-wracking nerve-wreck nerveless nervelet nervelike nerves of steel nerveway nervi nervimotion nervish nervo nervule nervy ninth cranial nerve occipital nerve oculomotor nerve olfactory nerve ophthalmic nerve optic nerve outnerve palatine nerve pathetic nerve petrosal nerve phrenic nerve pneumogastric nerve pterygoid nerve radial nerve raw nerve recurrent laryngeal nerve renervate renervation renerve saphenous nerve sciatic nerve second cranial nerve seventh cranial nerve short ciliary nerve sixth cranial nerve spinal nerve strain every nerve strike a nerve superior alveolar nerve superior laryngeal nerve supraclavicular nerve supraorbital nerve supratrochlear nerve sural nerve tenth cranial nerve the nerve of third cranial nerve touch a nerve touch a raw nerve trigeminal nerve trochlear nerve twelfth cranial nerve tympanic nerve ulnar nerve unnerve unnerved vagus nerve ventral nerve cord vestibular nerve vestibulocochlear nerve wandering nerve war of nerves zygomatic nerve zygomaticofacial nerve zygomaticotemporal nerve

Context

botany nonstandard polymer technology zoology

Part Of (Holonyms)

nervous system

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

aggressiveness brace braveness bravery courage courageousness fascicle fasciculus fiber bundle fibre bundle poise

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

cranial nerve

Type Of (IsA)

anatomical structure body part cell connected physical path system cord like object fiber bundle internal body part sensorial component in body solid object tree path system

Parts (Meronyms)

neuron

Part Of

body human body nervous system

Related Terms

enervate nervous nervure neuron

Related Terms

agitation animals audacity axon biological biological cell blood vessel body body system boldness brain bundle cell cobwebs connective tissue courage deformation elastic emotion endings enervate fear feeling feeling sensation feeling sensors fortitude gall grain in body inside inside body inside brain leaf like lymphatic negative nervous nervure neuron neuron like patience polymer processing resistance sensation sensor sensors sheath signals sinew stamina strength stress synapse system tendon transmit transmit signals type type cell vein wood

Synonym Network

audacity boldness brashness brazenness confirm courage encourage endurance enforce flang fortify fortitude foster gall heart invigorate promote rib spur stamina steel strengthen support vein

Used For

determine pain processing thought in animal relaying messages to brain sending signals to brain sense stimuli sensing pain transmit brain messages

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.