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  • I now risked dying from oxygen toxicity, as the excessively high amount of oxygen threatened to burn up my nervous system, lungs, and eyes.†   (source)
  • Electricity sizzled through Cinder's nervous system.†   (source)
  • Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way.†   (source)
  • The chemical is so toxic to the nervous system that no one is allowed in the field for five days after it is sprayed.†   (source)
  • Bodies about as big as a cat's spine, mostly a piezoelectric nervous system sheathed in silicon gristle, but they feed on… and manipulate… forcefields as large as those generated by small spinships.†   (source)
  • "With reference to viral infections," the Librarian says, "if I may make a fairly blunt? spontaneous cross-reference—something lam coded to do at opportune moments-you may wish to examine herpes simplex, a virus that takes up residence in the nervous system and never leaves.†   (source)
  • It rises from slaughterhouse wastewater lagoons, causes respiratory problems and headaches, and at high levels can cause permanent damage to the nervous system.†   (source)
  • It emits itself through the brain and into your nervous system.†   (source)
  • DISTRANS: a device for producing a temporary neural imprint on the nervous system of Chiroptera or birds.†   (source)
  • If it had a nervous system it would act in a much more complex way to overcome the poor quality of the environment.†   (source)
  • Stretchers and wheelchairs were beached here and there against the hissing, knocking pipes that ran and branched in an intricate nervous system along the glittering walls.†   (source)
  • Her mind and nervous system had become a library.†   (source)
  • Manzanar would always live in my nervous system, a needle with Mama's voice.†   (source)
  • As Colbert and Chamberlin observed, "there is a nervous system, of wires and printers' types, which connect all together, and …. places Chicago in close rapport with all parts of the world…."†   (source)
  • Edward's lips were like a shot of some addictive chemical straight into my nervous system.†   (source)
  • These are orgasms, basically, of the eye, the brain and the nervous system.†   (source)
  • He recalled it vividly: "I heard the mortar, then I felt a cold chill, the shock to my nervous system as the shrapnel penetrated my arm and leg.†   (source)
  • Thus traumatic events appear to recondition the human nervous system.†   (source)
  • Besides, that procession of terrifying figures was destroying Barrabas's nervous system.†   (source)
  • My whole nervous system started firing at once.†   (source)
  • I waited to die, for the bees to cover every exposed inch of me in stings that would shut down my nervous system.†   (source)
  • You had to wonder how such a thing affected a little dog like that'it couldn't be good for his nervous system.†   (source)
  • So then he would simply move through this situation in a cold, calculating fashion, without lingering long enough on any moment to allow his nervous system time to react with those chemicals that spawned emotion.†   (source)
  • A new segment's nervous system has to be more or less functional for the hookup.†   (source)
  • …and Johnson hit Jeffries at an angle of 45 degrees from his lower left lateral incisor, producing an instantaneous blocking of his entire thalamic rine, frosting it over like the freezing unit of a refrigerator, thus shattering his autonomous nervous system and rocking the big brick-laying creampuff with extreme hyperspasmic muscular tremors which dropped him dead on the extreme tip of his coccyx, which, in turn, produced a sharp traumatic reaction in his sphincter nerve and muscle,…†   (source)
  • That probability is as follows: FORM PROBABILITY Unicellular organisms or less (naked genetic information) 7840 Multicellular organisms, simple 1940 Multicellular organisms, complex but lacking coordinated central nervous system 0140 Multicellular organisms with integrated organ systems including nervous system 007g Multicellular organisms with complex nervous system capable of handling 7+ data (human capability) .†   (source)
  • The shock from her weapon jolted his nervous system.†   (source)
  • For an instant, it seemed to her that the motors were transparent and she was seeing the net of their nervous system.†   (source)
  • Something attacked his nervous system like a virulent toxin.†   (source)
  • So from day cabal started we kept touch with Mike and each other through his widespread nervous system.†   (source)
  • The human nervous system will not stand it.†   (source)
  • But I also realize that I was at that time in many ways afflicted by a staggeringly puerile inexperience: far from my mind was any idea that Nathan—despite his manic tone of voice, the hectic oratory, the sweat, the walleyed expression, the frazzled tension, the whole portrait he presented of one whose entire nervous system down to its minutest ganglia was in the throes of a fiery convulsion—might be dangerously disturbed.†   (source)
  • Your whole life, all your actions, laid out like a chart of the nervous system in a neurology class, this impressed me as good.†   (source)
  • Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth.†   (source)
  • It unsettles the nervous system.†   (source)
  • The radiation charged Chooka's nervous system with a low induction current.†   (source)
  • Braid's procedures involve the nervous system alone.†   (source)
  • "It is a device that ties in with a person's nervous system.†   (source)
  • BINDU: relating to the human nervous system, especially to nerve training.†   (source)
  • Herpes heads straight for the nervous system when it enters the body.†   (source)
  • I believe these animals do not have enough of a nervous system to suffer pain.†   (source)
  • Autocontrol and four-grade nervous system.†   (source)
  • W ILL ENTER BLOODSTREAM QUICKLY TO AFFECT NERVOUS SYSTEM.†   (source)
  • An overload on the nervous system, slow acting, but lethal all the same.†   (source)
  • That might be too much for your nervous system.†   (source)
  • The jolt zipped through his nervous system.†   (source)
  • Eighty-two seconds—but is one time when human nervous system feels every microsecond.†   (source)
  • Keep taking it, keep flying up and diving down, and the nervous system's going to go nutso.†   (source)
  • Long-term use undermines the nervous system.†   (source)
  • Its nervous system is decentralized, even its assimilation system.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: Your nervous system is better balanced than mine.†   (source)
  • Or, far more important, what of a more rudimentary nervous system?†   (source)
  • JEAN: My nervous system is in perfect order.†   (source)
  • He had heard enough about stun guns to know they crippled their victims by temporarily overloading the nervous system.†   (source)
  • It may be that much of what we are accustomed to describe as evil, and evil freely chosen, is instead an illness due to some lesion of the nervous system, and that the Devil himself is simply a malformation of the cerebrum.†   (source)
  • "Dry" beriberi affected the nervous system, causing numbness, confusion, unsteady gait, and paralysis.†   (source)
  • What mysteries remain to be revealed in the nervous system, that web of structures both material and ethereal, that network of threads that runs throughout the body, composed of a thousand Ariadne's clues, all leading to the brain, that shadowy central den where the human bones lie scattered and the monsters lurk….†   (source)
  • Not having had time to connect it to her wired nervous system, she felt like she was dragging around a paperweight.†   (source)
  • "Doctor," said Fateen, snapping his attention back to her, "why would she have a chip plugged into her nervous system?"†   (source)
  • "Perhaps," he said, pulling spectacles from his breast pocket and sliding them onto his nose, her nervous system experienced traumatic damage."†   (source)
  • To block this ability would require alteration of the nervous system as it enters the brain stem, and to do that while still allowing full movement and sensation would be …. it's quite impressive.†   (source)
  • Her nervous system.†   (source)
  • But it never crossed his mind that his dog could have that awful disease of the brain and the nervous system.†   (source)
  • As the sickness had tightened down on him, sinking into his nervous system like a ravenous grassfire, all dove-gray smoke and low rose-colored flame, as it continued to go about its work of destroying his established patterns of thought and behaviour, it had somehow deepened his cunning.†   (source)
  • "I wish that I could have a drink," Mike answered wistfully, "as I have wondered about the subjective effect of ethanol on the human nervous system—I conjecture that it must be similar to a slight overvoltage.†   (source)
  • He was marching like a creature with intimate associations with the depths, something eyeless and with a nervous system of such primitive simplicity that he was beyond pain, beyond touch.†   (source)
  • Daily use for a period of five years will, in ninetysix point eight percent, result in a complete and sudden shutdown of the nervous system.†   (source)
  • Your nervous system will just give out.†   (source)
  • We knew what the brain caste looked like; we had seen them dead (in photographs) and we knew they could not run — barely functional legs, bloated bodies that were mostly nervous system.†   (source)
  • But if I were a prince of Amber, then somewhere within my blood, my nervous system, my genes, this pattern was recorded somehow, so that I would respond properly, so that I could walk the bloody thing.†   (source)
  • When she assumes a new body, the power accompanies her into her new nervous system, though it comes only weakly at first.†   (source)
  • "Not only do I contain your nervous system," said Taraka, "but I have permeated your entire body and wrapped it all about with the energies of my being.†   (source)
  • His nervous system superheterodyned and screamed and a turbine in his mind whirled faster and faster with a mounting intolerable whine.†   (source)
  • It toppled over the edge and crashed down through the flower beds until it landed on the lawn, crying and jerking as though a steady stream of voltage was pouring through its nervous system.†   (source)
  • It must have been a great shock to your nervous system.†   (source)
  • The deciduous trees stood up in skeleton, like maps of the veins or of the nervous system.†   (source)
  • A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet.†   (source)
  • Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system.†   (source)
  • The looking-glass vision is of supreme importance because it charges the vitality; it stimulates the nervous system.†   (source)
  • Here was an argument that could strike a responsive chord in the nervous system of every Northern man, farmer or worker, abolitionist or racist: if a stop was not put somewhere upon the spread of slavery, the institution would become nation-wide.†   (source)
  • No one understood metabolism, no one knew how the nervous system functioned.†   (source)
  • It comes from her age, and besides, her nervous system is affected.†   (source)
  • Ring as often as it might, the sound always smote upon her nervous system rudely and suddenly.†   (source)
  • 'This violent strain upon the nervous system over, my lord, what ensues?†   (source)
  • Indeed, her presence gave the house what none other of the houses that he visited seemed to possess: a sort of tactual sense, a nervous system which ramified into each of its rooms and sent a constant stimulus to his heart.†   (source)
  • Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system.†   (source)
  • He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered.†   (source)
  • "Within the last few months it became increasingly plain to me that Sir Charles's nervous system was strained to the breaking point.†   (source)
  • Dick thought he would probably be a fine clinician, for the sonorous or staccato cadences by which he disciplined nurse or patient came not from his nervous system but from a tremendous and harmless vanity.†   (source)
  • It is a piercing pain that has something degrading about it, as does all pain, and is such a shock to the nervous system that it takes one's breath away and can make a grown man weep bitter tears.†   (source)
  • The digestive processes and their reaction upon the nervous system sap our strength and colour our minds.†   (source)
  • To his patients he gave three-quarters of an hour; and if in this exacting science which has to do with what, after all, we know nothing about—the nervous system, the human brain—a doctor loses his sense of proportion, as a doctor he fails.†   (source)
  • Consciousness, as sensitivity to stimuli, was undoubtedly aroused to some extent at even the lowest, most undeveloped stages of its occurrence; it was impossible to tie the emergence of consciousness to any particular point in life's general or individual history—to link it, for instance, to the presence of a nervous system.†   (source)
  • There was no peculiar indication in any organ—an excitement of the nervous system—that was it; a case of cerebral congestion—nothing more.†   (source)
  • But, I perfectly remember that I sat swilling tea until my whole nervous system, if I had had any in those days, must have gone by the board.†   (source)
  • He imagined that Dorothea had been to see her, and that all this effect on her nervous system, which evidently involved some new turning towards himself, was due to the excitement of the new impressions which that visit had raised.†   (source)
  • And then I have such a nervous system!†   (source)
  • I have never before experienced such a trial of the nervous system; there was a moment, I acknowledge, when the fortiter in re faltered before so terrible an enemy; but the love of natural science bore me up, and brought me off in triumph!†   (source)
  • Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.†   (source)
  • In this state of suspense they were befriended, not by any sudden illumination of Mr. Woodhouse's mind, or any wonderful change of his nervous system, but by the operation of the same system in another way.†   (source)
  • On this presumption, she stopped at noon at a neat farmhouse, to rest herself, and buy some dinner for her child and self; for, as the danger decreased with the distance, the supernatural tension of the nervous system lessened, and she found herself both weary and hungry.†   (source)
  • Haidee's nervous system is delicately organized, and she is peculiarly susceptible to the odors even of flowers—nay, there are some which cause her to faint if brought into her presence.†   (source)
  • And so natural did this sort of performance come to Mr Snittle Timberry, that on their way out of the theatre and towards the tavern where the supper was to be holden, he testified the severity of his recent indisposition and its wasting effects upon the nervous system, by a series of gymnastic performances which were the admiration of all witnesses.†   (source)
  • So firm and quiet is the nervous system of such men as Judge Pyncheon, that he had perhaps stirred not more than once since her departure, but, in the hard composure of his temperament, retained the position into which accident had thrown him.†   (source)
  • "If there is any service to be performed, which requires the perfect command of the nervous system," said the man of science, with a look that was slightly blustering, "you have only to give a direction to his intellectual faculties, and here stands one on whose physical powers you may depend."†   (source)
  • …inspection, and directing an under-servant in his duties; for Marie St. Clare declared that she could not have any smell of the horses about him when he came near her, and that he must positively not be put to any service that would make him unpleasant to her, as her nervous system was entirely inadequate to any trial of that nature; one snuff of anything disagreeable being, according to her account, quite sufficient to close the scene, and put an end to all her earthly trials at once.†   (source)
  • "This shows us," went on the other, smiling with benign self-sufficiency, "the innumerable irregularities of the nervous system.†   (source)
  • Marie, whose nervous system had been enervated by a constant course of self-indulgence, had nothing to support the terror of the shock, and, at the time her husband breathed his last, was passing from one fainting fit to another; and he to whom she had been joined in the mysterious tie of marriage passed from her forever, without the possibility of even a parting word.†   (source)
  • The arguments acted, however, on the nervous system of the Doctor, like so many soothing soporifics, and by the time his aged companion was disposed to lay his head on his pack, Obed, refreshed by his recent mental joust, was in a condition to seek his natural rest, without enduring the torments of the incubus, in the shapes of Teton warriors and bloody tomahawks.†   (source)
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