central nervous system

English

A diagram showing the CNS:
1. Brain
2. Central nervous system
(brain and spinal cord)
3. Spinal cord

Noun

central nervous system (plural central nervous systems)

(neuroanatomy) In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.
Synonyms: CNS, cerebrospinal axis, systema nervosum centrale

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Translations

that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brainstem and spinal cord

Chinese:
Cantonese: 中樞神經系統, 中枢神经系统 (zung¹ syu¹ san⁴ ging¹ hai⁶ tung²)

Mandarin: 中樞神經系統 (zh), 中枢神经系统 (zh) (zhōngshū shénjīng xìtǒng)
Czech: centrální nervová soustava f
Danish: centralnervesystem n
Estonian: kesknärvisüsteem
Finnish: keskushermosto (fi)
French: système nerveux central (fr) m
Galician: sistema nervioso central (gl) m
German: Zentralnervensystem (de) n

Greek: κεντρικό νευρικό σύστημα n (kentrikó nevrikó sýstima)
Hungarian: központi idegrendszer (hu)
Italian: sistema nervoso centrale (it) m
Japanese: 中枢神経系 (ちゅうすうしんけいけい, chūsū shinkeikei)
Portuguese: sistema nervoso central
Romanian: sistem nervos central (ro) n
Russian: центра́льная не́рвная систе́ма (ru) f (centrálʹnaja nérvnaja sistéma)
Spanish: sistema nervioso central m
Swedish: centrala nervsystemet (sv) n

See also

peripheral nervous system

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