SYSTEMA NERVOSUM CENTRALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does systema nervosum centrale mean? 

• SYSTEMA NERVOSUM CENTRALE (noun)
  The noun SYSTEMA NERVOSUM CENTRALE has 1 sense:

1. the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord

  Familiarity information: SYSTEMA NERVOSUM CENTRALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYSTEMA NERVOSUM CENTRALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

central nervous system; CNS; systema nervosum centrale

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)