neurility
(njʊˈrɪlɪtɪ)
[f. neur- + -ility. Cf. F. neurilité.]
The power of a nerve to convey or transmit impulse or sensation.
| 1860 Lewes Physiol. Com. Life II. 19 Neurility simply means the property which the nerve-fibre has, when stimulated, of exciting contraction in a muscle, secretion in a gland, and sensation in a ganglionic centre. 1879 N. Smyth Old Faiths in New Lights vii. (1882) 300 note, So long as sensibility and neurility..cannot be shown to be necessarily related and convertible. |