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What is a nervous system?

What is a nervous system? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (neuroanatomy) An organ system that coordinates the activities of muscles, monitors organs, constructs and processes data received from the senses, and initiates actions.
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The hand movements were a result of nervous system feedback, the tongue of the creature was some how triggering involuntary muscle spasms.
The virus also uses anatomical compartments such as the central nervous system and the male urogenital tract to avoid antiviral therapies.
Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system, thus increasing neuronal activity and brain function.
The autonomic nervous system is divided into two more systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
Pneumoencephalography has proved so useful in the investigation of disease of central nervous system that it is now widely practised.
Myelin acts as a multilamellar insulator around brain axons and is expressed by oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system.

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