nerve-fibril

Updated: February 6, 2025

On the outside of the elastic membrane, just beneath the ectoderm, is a plexus or cobweb of nervous cells and fibrils. As in every nervous system, three elements are here to be found. 1. An afferent or sensory nerve-fibril, which under adequate stimulus is set in vibration by some cell of the epidermis or ectoderm, which is therefore called a sensory cell. 2.

John Mason Tyler - The Whence and the Whither of Man : A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895