nerveway

English

Etymology

nerve +‎ way

Noun

nerveway (plural nerveways)

1. An axon.
   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 73:

     He sutured the pieces together like a microsurgeon reattaching a severed nerveway.

   • 2005, Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, New American Poets, page 128:

     Even though it was something the painter didn't think about (with words) she recalled the metallic flavor of minerals (how the stars must taste) scratching at the root of her tongue, which led to nerveways of the bones where the imprint of all symbols surfaces to the fingers, where spirits ride horses through the colors needed to form any coherent universe.

   • 2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat:

     I can't even say I saw the thing. It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage.

   • 2012, Daniel Pearlman, And Baby Makes Five:

     His lips moved, and he looked at her as if the time inside his head had slowed to a crawl, as if the nerveways in his brain were clogged with too much information.