The Collaborative International Dictionary
Innervate \In*ner"vate\ ([i^]n*n[~e]r"v[=a]t), v. t. [See Innerve.] (Anat.) To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To supply (part of the body) with nerves 2 To stimulate a nerve (or other part of the body) into action
WordNet
v. supply nerves to (some organ or body part)
stimulate to action; "innervate a muscle or a nerve"
Usage examples of "innervate".
They also innervate the salivary glands and the tear-producing glands of the eye.
In general, the original chordate body plan had each pair of spinal nerves innervate the organs of its segment.
The oculomotor nerve consists chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
They attack the peripheril nervous system where the nerves innervate the muscle fibers.
Using the newly discovered Principle of Neural Chain Reaction, he proceeded to use each reality he created as an accelerated vehicle to energize and innervate the next reality structure.
It innervates the inner ear and is concerned with the sense of hearing.
This mixed nerve arises in the medulla, near its junction with the pons, and innervates the mucous membrane of the rear of the tongue and of the throat.
They are not only greater in extent and denser in population, but they are increasingly innervated by more and more rapid means of communication and excitement.
It is the smallest of the cranial nerves and extends from the midbrain to a muscle that helps to move the eyeball one of the muscles not innervated by the oculomotor nerve.
The muscle innervated passes through a ring of connective tissue so that it resembles a small pulley, whence the name.
The sympathetic division has the wider distribution to all parts of the viscera, but many of the visceral organs are innervated by fibers of both divisions.
Hands on rail, with a last supreme burst of the energy that innervated his dying body, he vaulted clear.
Like every other drugstore on earth, it is filled with quack products that remind me of nineteenth-century ads for hair restorers and innervating elixirs.
It is the smallest of the cranial nerves and extends from the midbrain to a muscle that helps to move the eyeball one of the muscles not innervated by the oculomotor nerve.
The oculomotor nerve consists chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.