ScienceSeptember 3, 2026
innervated
in-NER-vay-tid
Definition
Supplied with nerves; having a nerve network connected to a particular body part or region.
Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'nervus' (meaning nerve or sinew) with the prefix 'in-' (into/in), appearing in English in the 19th century to describe the anatomical distribution of nerves.
In the news
The article notes that the palms are densely innervated—meaning they have many nerve endings—to explain why they feel less ticklish compared to other body regions.
Research suggests how ticklish a body region is tracks how rarely it gets touched — in a survey of 448 Chinese-, Dutch- and Greek-speaking volunteers the hotspots were the armpits, the sides of the trunk and the soles of the feet, while the palms were among
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