Synonyms for nervous system
ner·vous sys·tem

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1. nervous systemnoun

   Synonyms:
   systema nervosum

2. nervous systemnoun

   An organ system that coordinates the activities of muscles, monitors organs, constructs and processes data received from the senses and initiates actions.

   Synonyms:
   systema nervosum

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1. nervous system, systema nervosumnoun

   the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells

   Synonyms:
   systema nervosum

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1. Alex Viada:

   That just wipes you out, less intense work builds your endurance, gives you adaptations that help improve your heart, nervous system, and circulatory system function, and allows you to recover from intense workouts. It’s much more sustainable than intense work.

2. Robert Erickson:

   In some way, this electromagnetic energy is interacting indirectly or directly with the sympathetic nervous system, which is part of the involuntary nervous system.

3. Dean Ornish:

   Because they all share the same underlying biological mechanisms: chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, changes in the microbiome, changes in gene expression, overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system, changes in immune function and so on, and in turn, each one of these is directly influenced by what we eat, how we respond to stress, how much exercise we get and how much love and support we have.

4. Charles H. Mayo:

   Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

5. Katherine Bentley:

   What we believe happens is when we have pain, the nervous system has a pain response and for people in chronic pain or amplified pain the response just doesn’t stop. The feedback look doesn’t turn off and in fact it gets worse.