AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM


Meaning of AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM in English

noun

1. : a part of the vertebrate nervous system that innervates smooth and cardiac muscle and glandular tissues, governs actions that are more or less automatic (as secretion, vasoconstriction, or peristalsis), and consists of the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system

2. : parasympathetic nervous system

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