central nervous system

English

A diagram showing the CNS:
1. Brain
2. Central nervous system
    (brain and spinal cord)
3. Spinal cord

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Noun

central nervous system (plural central nervous systems)

2. (neuroanatomy) In vertebrates, that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord.

   Synonyms: cerebrospinal axis, CNS (initialism), systema nervosum centrale (Latin designation)

   Near-synonym: neuraxis (sometimes synonymous)

Related terms

• autonomic nervous system
• peripheral nervous system

Translations

that part of the nervous system comprising the brain, brainstem and spinal cord

• Bengali: কেন্দ্রীয় স্নায়ুতন্ত্র (kendriẏo snaẏutontro)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 中樞神經系統 / 中枢神经系统 (zung¹ syu¹ san⁴ ging¹ hai⁶ tung²)

  Hokkien: 中樞神經系統 / 中枢神经系统 (tiong-chhu sîn-keng hē-thóng)

  Mandarin: 中樞神經系統 / 中枢神经系统 (zh) (zhōngshū shénjīng xìtǒng)

• Czech: centrální nervová soustava f
• Danish: centralnervesystem n
• Dutch: centraal zenuwstelsel n
• Esperanto: centra nerva sistemo
• Estonian: kesknärvisüsteem
• Finnish: keskushermosto (fi)
• French: système nerveux central (fr) m
• Galician: sistema nervioso central (gl) m
• German: Zentralnervensystem (de) n
• Greek: κεντρικό νευρικό σύστημα (el) n (kentrikó nevrikó sýstima)
• Hungarian: központi idegrendszer (hu)
• Icelandic: miðtaugakerfi (is) n
• Indonesian: sistem saraf pusat
• Italian: sistema nervoso centrale (it) m
• Japanese: 中枢神経系 (ja) (ちゅうすうしんけいけい, chūsū shinkeikei)
• Kazakh: орталық жүйке жүйесі (ortalıq jüyke jüyesi)
• Korean: 중추신경계통(中樞神經系統) (jungchusin'gyeonggyetong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: demarekoendama navendî f

• Kyrgyz: борбордук нерв системасы (borborduk nerv sisteması)
• Latin: systema nervosum centrale m
• Polish: ośrodkowy układ nerwowy (pl) m inan, centralny układ nerwowy m inan
• Portuguese: sistema nervoso central
• Romanian: sistem nervos central (ro) n
• Russian: центра́льная не́рвная систе́ма (ru) f (centrálʹnaja nérvnaja sistéma)
• Spanish: sistema nervioso central m
• Swedish: centrala nervsystemet (sv) n
• Tamil: மைய நரம்பு மண்டலம் (maiya narampu maṇṭalam)
• Thai: ระบบประสาทกลาง (rá-bòp-bprà-sàat-glaang)
• Turkish: merkezî sinir sistemi (tr)
• Vietnamese: hệ thần kinh trung ương (vi) (系神經中央)

See also

• peripheral nervous system