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SYSTEMA NERVOSUM CENTRALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
Synonyms:
central nervous system; CNS; systema nervosum centrale
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("systema nervosum centrale" is a kind of...):
system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)
Meronyms (parts of "systema nervosum centrale"):
glia; neuroglia (sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system)
brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)
corticospinal tract; pyramidal motor system; pyramidal tract (any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord)
medulla spinalis; spinal cord (a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region)
Meronyms (substance of "systema nervosum centrale"):
substantia alba; white matter (whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths)
Holonyms ("systema nervosum centrale" is a part of...):
nervous system; systema nervosum (the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells)
