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n. (central nervous system English)
Usage examples of "central nervous systems".
And so, Jim, the retraining of left-handed children to become right-handed -- in complete contradiction to the orders the poor kids' brains are issuing to their muscles -- badly bollixes up their central nervous systems, and, among other bad outcomes, is the direct and only cause of habitual stuttering.
In sheer bulk of biomass, organisms without brains or even without central nervous systems far outnumber those possessing these desirable features.
It stimulated their central nervous systems, and the purposive form-change process began.
Even in a high-class place that supposedly catered to all known physiologiesthe soothing, programmed play of lights across the columned walls, the shifting spectra that were supposed to relax weary travelers' central nervous systems, struck Zuckuss as crepuscular and depressing as the faded hopes of his youth.
Many of the former revolutionaries had gone overboard on the personal augmentations offered by the Festival, without realizing that it was necessary to modify their central nervous systems in order to run them.
But there was something particularly hideous, especially foul, in the thought of young combat soldiers writhing through their last moments of life as gas tore at their lung tissues and crippled their central nervous systems.
They penetrated not only the subcutaneous tissue and underlying musculature, but practically all of the vital organs and central nervous systems.
A holdover from the same historical epoch as the Maoists, the other war, the one that had gone on inside people's brains and central nervous systems.
The dull and prosaic will be granted adventures that will dice their central nervous systems like an onion, romantic dreamers will end up in the rope yard.
They'd preserved the felons' central nervous systems until their grace time was up.
Befo re we were free, our owners attached guns and other weapons directly to our hands and feet, so they could be fired via impulses from our central nervous systems.