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nerve center
noun
- a group of nerve cells closely connected with one another and acting together in the performance of some function.
- a source of information, authority, action, etc.:
The communications room is the nerve center of a battleship.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of nerve center1
Example Sentences
If we were to squeeze through small cracks in his mind’s cavern walls or crawl down its miniaturized hallways toward Erickson's nerve center, we might find ourselves in a room with a broken printer.
Getting to the hospital’s nerve center these days involves navigating past 15-foot concrete barricades and multiple blast doors, then descending several floors into a labyrinthine subterranean complex.
Its Capitol Hill headquarters serve as something of a counterweight to the Conservative Partnership Institute, which operates nearby as the nerve center of the right.
The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military.
One panel report described the agency as a censorship “nerve center.”
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