definition of the word central_nervous_system

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A diagram showing the CNS:
1. Brain
2. Central nervous system
    (brain and spinal cord)
3. Spinal cord

central nervous system (plural central nervous systems)

1. (neuroanatomy) In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.

• CNS
• cerebrospinal axis
• systema nervosum centrale

• autonomic nervous system
• peripheral nervous system

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