Central Nervous System

Of system and nervous system.   May also be referred to as CNS and systema nervosum centrale.

The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

This concept's ID is @1~29909

Neural Structure

  • brain 9 facts

    That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed...

  • spinal cord 3 facts

    A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses...

Also contains

  • neuroglia 4 facts

    Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system;...

  • white matter 2 facts

    Whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths.

  • pyramidal tract 1 facts

    Any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that...