At that power, if you'd even approached a major nerve, he'd have gone instantly.
His cast probably pinched some major nerve, and a week in it would cause permanent paralysis; who cared about that?
Not just the major nerve centres as might be expected, but the nerve chains themselves.
Or the skull may slip down toward the shoulders, compressing brain tissue and other major nerves in the head.
For example, penicillin G does not travel very well into the central nervous system - the brain and major nerves, the areas which neurosyphilis affect.
They are given as a shot around major nerves or the spinal cord.
Anesthetic is injected around major nerves or the spinal cord.
To do that required finding the major nerves as they wound up through the spine.
Then he diagnosed Bell's palsy, an inflammation of a major facial nerve.
Bell's palsy results from an inflammation of a major facial nerve.