Shakespeare altered the modern language of his time. So what better to do with his work than another play on words. 'What's in a name?' to ' What's in a nerve?' Back when I first took anatomy and physiology nerves seemed obscure to me and slightly intangible. Today we discuss what a nerve is, how it functions, what it's made of, what separates a healthy from unhealthy nerve, and a simplistic and most importantly understandable view on the different types of nerves.