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What does nervous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nervous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
  2. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
  3. Relating to or affecting the nerves.
  4. (obsolete) Of a piece of writing: forceful, powerful.
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Drugs can modulate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system by affecting the synthesis, storage, release or reuptake of noradrenaline.
Too much sympathetic nervous system activity can be associated with stress, anxiety, and dysphoric mood.
The customary smirk returned to Trey's lips and he about-faced, coming closer to the nervous young man.
Here we will activate your sympathetic nervous system using a famous model pain stimulus: dunking your hand in ice water.
She is becoming nervous and anxious but there are still four people in front of her.
The sympathetic nervous system, not white blood cells, is critically important in the regulation of energy expenditure and thermogenesis.

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