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nervous system
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  • To stimulate the nervous system and various organs.†  (source)
  • You know that part in An Imperial Affliction when Anna's walking across the football field to go to PE or whatever and she falls and goes face-first into the grass and that's when she knows that the cancer is back and in her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field grass and she's just stuck there looking at this grass up close, noticing the way the light hits it and ....I don't remember the line but it's something like Anna having the Whitmanesque revelation that the definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation or whatever.†  (source)
  • One in your head, the one we called the brain, and the other circling your gut, what they called the ENS, the enteric nervous system.†  (source)
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  • Their second operation augments all their muscles and rewires their nervous system.†  (source)
    nervous system = the brain, nerve cells, and/or other body parts that enable sensory perception and movement
  • Every fiber of his nervous system leaps awake.†  (source)
  • Electricity sizzled through Cinder's nervous system.†  (source)
  • I now risked dying from oxygen toxicity, as the excessively high amount of oxygen threatened to burn up my nervous system, lungs, and eyes.†  (source)
  • It was Will's body's massive overreaction against pain, discomfort—or, say, an unemptied catheter—his damaged nervous system's vain and misguided attempt to stay in control.†  (source)
  • Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way.†  (source)
  • God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts!†  (source)
  • Edward's lips were like a shot of some addictive chemical straight into my nervous system.†  (source)
  • A new segment's nervous system has to be more or less functional for the hookup.†  (source)
  • Her mind and nervous system had become a library.†  (source)
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