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Biol.
The organized aggregate of all the nerve cells and nerve tissues of the higher animals, centralized in the spinal cord and brain of vertebrates. It has the functions of coordinating, controlling, and regulating responses to stimuli, directing behavior, and, in man, conditioning the phenomena of consciousness.
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