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"Ventral" in the central nervous system also refers to the rostro-caudal axis, which changes within the head. These three axes of the human brain match the three planes within which they lie, even though the terms for the planes have not been changed from the terms for the bodily planes. The most commonly used reference planes are:
It was the title of a marching song sung by women during WWII. The chorus goes "If you're nervous in the service, And you don't know what to do / Have a baby, get out of the Navy." Later, it was generalized to just meaning "nervous", so that the word "service" is now just a bit of rhyming nonsense, like the "Ruth" in "that's the truth, Ruth".
Human nervous system. Human nervous system – the part of the human body that coordinates a person's voluntary and involuntary actions and transmits signals between different parts of the body. The human nervous system consists of two main parts: the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS).
The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is a collective term for the nervous system structures that do not lie within the CNS. [17] The large majority of the axon bundles called nerves are considered to belong to the PNS, even when the cell bodies of the neurons to which they belong reside within the brain or spinal cord.
Nervous system, a network of cells in an animal's body that coordinates movement and the senses Nervous tissue , the cells of the nervous system that work in aggregate to transmit signals Music
Pages in category "Symptoms and signs: Nervous system" The following 101 pages are in this category, out of 101 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and processes input from the senses and initiates actions The main article for this category is Nervous system .
Neurology (from Greek: νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves. [1]