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central nervous system

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
central nervous system

▶noun Anatomy the complex of nerve tissues that controls the activities of the body, in vertebrates comprising the brain and spinal cord.

'central nervous system' also found in these Oxford entries:

analeptic - astrocyte - BSE - caffeine - Chagas' disease - CNS - ganglion - microglia - nucleus - poliomyelitis - scrapie - spinal cord

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