nervous system
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His cancer was graded stage three, and is not in his bones or nervous system.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Chips, cloud computing and AI "are the nervous system of the modern economy", powering everything from defence to healthcare, EU lawmaker Oliver Schenk said.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
MS is a disease of the brain and central nervous system, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the fatty myelin sheath that normally protects the nerves, like insulation around electric wires.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
They then examined how the compound affected immune activity and inflammatory signaling in the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
The deciduous trees stood up in skeleton, like maps of the veins or of the nervous system.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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