A word is one or more sounds that in combination have a specific meaning assigned by a language. The symbolic meaning of words can be so powerful that people are willing to risk their lives for them or take the lives of others.
A nerve impulse is the relaying of a coded signal from a nerve cell to an effector (a muscle cell, a gland cell or another nerve cell) in response to a stimulus. It is the means by which a nerve cell communicates with another cell.
nerve. a macroscopic cordlike structure of the body, comprising a collection of nerve fibers that convey impulses between a part of the central nervous system and some other body region. See Appendix 2-6 and see color plates. Depending on their function, nerves are known as sensory, motor, or mixed.ensory nerve a peripheral nerve that conducts impulses from a sense organ to the spinal cord or brain. See also neuron. somatic n's the sensory and motor nerves supplying skeletal muscle and somatic tissues.