nerve net

nerve net
noun
: a network (as in various lower invertebrates and possibly the wall of the vertebrate intestine) that consists of primitive nerve cells each of which appears continuous with adjacent cells without intervening synapses and that conducts stimulation in all directions with a decrement

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a diffuse branching network of nerve cells connecting the sensory and muscular cells of coelenterates and primitive flatworms.
[1900-05]

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nerve net noun
A network of neurons in invertebrates forming a simple nervous system
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Main Entry: ↑nerve

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nerve net,
a network of nerve cells distributed throughout the tissues of coelenterates, echinoderms, and certain other lower forms, in which it makes up a primitive nervous system: »

As might be expected from the dispersed arrangement of nerve cells, conduction in nerve nets is diffuse (R. K. Josephson).

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n. Zoology (in invertebrates such as coelenterates and flatworms) a diffuse network of neurons that conducts impulses in all directions from a point of stimulus

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