systema nervosum

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsnervous system

   Broadersystem

   Narrowersympathetic nervous systemparasympathetic nervous system

   Part ofbody

   Partsnervous tissueganglionnerve cellfiber bundlecentral nervous systemneural network

Questions about systema nervosum

What does systema nervosum mean?

systema nervosum means "the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells".

What is another word for systema nervosum?

Close synonyms include nervous system. 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 systema nervosum a common word?

systema nervosum 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.