central nervous system
noun1
Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroanatomy, Neurology, Neuroscience, Sciences In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord.
- Near-synonym: neuraxis (sometimes synonymous)
- Synonyms
- central nervous system
- Related terms
- autonomic nervous system, peripheral nervous system
- Holonyms
- nervous system
- Meronyms
- brain, spinal cord, white matter, gray matter