Definition of "innervation" [in•ner•va•tion]

• The act of innervating or stimulating. (noun)
• Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (noun)
• The distribution of nerves in an animal, or to any of its parts. (noun)

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• "An incipient innervation, which is all that we need assume as the condition of a change of mental attitude, would suffice to block, or at least to hamper, inconsistent innervations no more complete than itself."
• "Now in turning the eye from a luminous object, _O_, to some other fixation-point, _P_, the distance as simply contemplated is more or less subdivided or filled in by the objects which are seen to lie between _O_ and _P_, or if no such objects are visible the distance is still felt to consist of an infinity of points; whereas the muscular innervation which is to carry the eye over this very distance is an undivided unit."
• "No—about peptidergic innervation of the internal anal sphincter in Hirschsprung's Disease."