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Nerve centre

noun

A center that provides information and control. Synonym: nerve center.

A cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process. Synonyms: center, centre, nerve center.

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... barriers of bayonets and machine guns, the Bolshevik chieftains have made this barbarically gorgeous nesting place of Oriental autocracy the throbbing nerve centre of world revolution.... And from its frowning gates they sally forth in their high power limousines on affairs of state even as the Czars in their day went forth to superintend the administration of their ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... coitus, erection is followed by ejaculation. A special nerve centre for ejaculation is also supposed to exist; and the ejaculation centre, like the erection centre, was formerly believed to be situated in the lumbar enlargement of the spinal cord, but recent investigations have shown ...

— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll

... vesicles—phlyctaena—appear, and the inflammation terminates in gangrene; or when there is such an infiltration of serum as to produce an [oe]dematous condition, place P. P., long cord, upon some convenient healthy part, (the spinal cord, or other nerve centre which gives nervous service to the part affected, is best,) and treat the lesion with N. P., light force, ...

— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication • Daniel Clark

Words linked to "Nerve centre" : Broca's center, convolution of Broca, Wernicke's area, Wernicke's center, auditory center, rhinencephalon, superior colliculus, Broca's gyrus, center, neural structure, nerve center, centre, olfactory brain, Broca's convolution, respiratory center, inferior colliculus, Broca's area