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What does innervate mean?

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  1. To supply (part of the body) with nerves
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There, sciatic branches innervate the biceps femoris, semitendinosus and semimembranosus muscles, and part of the adductor magnus muscle.
Spinal nerves innervate the upper extremities within the enlargement in the cervical region between the fifth cervical vertebra and the first thoracic vertebra.
Paired nerves from the brain and ganglia innervate the body.
This diurnal variation in melatonin synthesis is brought about by norepinephrine secreted by the postganglionic sympathetic nerves that innervate the pineal gland.
The peripheral nerves that innervate the body arise from the spinal cord as 31 pairs of segmental spinal nerves.
Most neurons of the sympathetic nervous system use noradrenaline as a transmitter, but some, such as those that innervate the sweat glands of the footpad, use acetylcholine.

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