autonomic
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The autonomic nervous system helps regulate many automatic functions in the body, including digestion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
Neuroscientists call such coordinated movement and autonomic activity “interpersonal synchrony.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Some treatments focus on particular complications such as clotting, autonomic nervous system problems, and immune imbalance.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
It's part of the autonomic nervous system, which controls things we don't think about, like breathing, heart rate and digestion.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
It is the most compulsively collective, genetically programmed, species-specific, and autonomic of all the things we do, and we are infallible at it.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
