See Also: central nervous system(dictionary)
Central Nervous System(health)
Central nervous system (CNS)(health)
Central nervous system(medicine)
CNS (central nervous system)(health)
central nervous system stimulants(medicine)
central nervous system neoplasms(medicine)
central nervous system depressants(medicine)
central nervous system infections(medicine)
central nervous system agents(medicine)

Central Nervous System (health)


That part of the nervous system that includes exclusively the bone encased brain and the spinal cord, as opposed to the outlying peripheral nervous system, consisting of the somatic nervous system, which governs usually voluntary musculo-skeletal reactions and the autonomic nervous system, which controls usually involuntary visceral, homeostatic, glandular and circulatory activity.