nerve fibre

Questions about nerve fibre

What does nerve fibre mean?

nerve fibre means "a threadlike extension of a nerve cell".

What is another word for nerve fibre?

Close synonyms include nerve fiber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nerve fibre a common word?

nerve fibre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.