peripheral nervous system

1. 1.

   the section of the nervous system lying outside the brain and spinal cord

   Synonymssystema nervosum periphericum

   Broadersystem

   Part ofnervous system

Questions about peripheral nervous system

What does peripheral nervous system mean?

peripheral nervous system means "the section of the nervous system lying outside the brain and spinal cord".

What is another word for peripheral nervous system?

Close synonyms include systema nervosum periphericum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peripheral nervous system a common word?

peripheral nervous system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.