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Central nervous system   Listen
noun
central nervous system  n.  The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord; abbreviated CNS.
Synonyms: CNS.






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"Central nervous system" Quotes from Famous Books



... peripheral nervous system as the tactual, it produces the same amplitude and perhaps the same form of wave, but the reaction times for the two stimuli differ because of the biological significance of the stimuli. The chances are that this is wholly dependent upon the central nervous system. ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... transmission of energy from the mother to the foetus by means of the close relation between the maternal and foetal circulation. It is only when the free existence demands activities not necessary in intra-uterine life that existence without a central nervous system ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman

... follow the same law as in the adult. They diffuse more widely in the fetus. In the adult the liver is the chief accumulatory organ. Arsenic, which in the mother elects to accumulate in the liver, is in the fetus stored up in the skin; copper accumulates in the fetal liver, central nervous system, and sometimes in the skin; lead which is found specially in the maternal liver, but also in the skin, has been observed in the skin, liver, nervous centers, and elsewhere in the fetus. The frequent presence of poisons in the fetal skin demonstrates its physiologic ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



Words linked to "Central nervous system" :   glia, medulla spinalis, pyramidal motor system, systema nervosum centrale, nervous system, white matter, substantia alba, neuroglia, systema nervosum, brain, corticospinal tract, spinal cord, system



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