Sample sentences for NERVOUS SYSTEM

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Definition

the body's sensory (feeling) and control (movement) apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells

The protein is found in the peripheral nervous system.

the muscles, the heart and lungs, the digestive system, the nervous system, the brain.
David Almond -- Skellig

nervous system = the body's sensory (feeling) and control (movement) apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells

Thus traumatic events appear to recondition the human nervous system.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
DISTRANS: a device for producing a temporary neural imprint on the nervous system of Chiroptera or birds.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Her mind and nervous system had become a library.
Stephen King -- Carrie
Manzanar would always live in my nervous system, a needle with Mama's voice.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts!
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
The deciduous trees stood up in skeleton, like maps of the veins or of the nervous system.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
The human nervous system will not stand it.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Their second operation augments all their muscles and rewires their nervous system.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
He had heard enough about stun guns to know they crippled their victims by temporarily overloading the nervous system.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
The digestive processes and their reaction upon the nervous system sap our strength and colour our minds.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
Edward's lips were like a shot of some addictive chemical straight into my nervous system.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
Every fiber of his nervous system leaps awake.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
These are orgasms, basically, of the eye, the brain and the nervous system.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
If it had a nervous system it would act in a much more complex way to overcome the poor quality of the environment.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It unsettles the nervous system.
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
And then I have such a nervous system!
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

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