reticular activating system

1. 1.

   the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function

   SynonymsRAS

   Broaderneural network

   Part ofreticular formation

Questions about reticular activating system

What does reticular activating system mean?

reticular activating system means "the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function".

What is another word for reticular activating system?

Close synonyms include RAS. 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.