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nervous_system
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells
Synonyms Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)( He explained that he could diagnose these ailments from squeezing her foot because all_of the nervous_system was connected to it . ) (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Moreover , the dominance in parasympathetic action ( with reciprocal inhibition of the sympathetic ) at the hypothalamic level induces , by its peripheral action , the autonomic symptoms of sleep and , by its action on the cortex , a lessening in the reactivity of the sensory and motor apparatus of the somatic nervous_system . |
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