autonomic nervous system
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- noun
- /ˌɔːtəˈnɑːmɪk ˈnɜrvəs ˈsɪstəm/
- Specialized
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sistema nervioso autónomo
- When you are stressed, your autonomic nervous system can increase your heart rate and blood pressure.
- endocrine and autonomic nervous system
- arousal of the autonomic nervous system
- autonomic nervous system responses
And when you do, their autonomic nervous system begins to regulate back into order.
- And when you do, their autonomic nervous system begins to regulate back into order.
- And we never allow this sympathetic fight or flight stressed aspect of our autonomic nervous system to calm down.
- I think that many people suffer from just too much activation in their autonomic nervous system.
- Now we have shown to get into the autonomic nervous system and to create both sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity at will.
- It doesn't recruit enough of the autonomic nervous system to make pursuit of that goal likely.
- I was the first one to show to tap into the autonomic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system and the immune system.
- I have been in situations where my recovery and my balance between my autonomic nervous system, I don't think has changed a massive amount.
- And whether or not individuals are selecting for people who have autonomic nervous systems that are more or less like theirs before they even meet, right.
Examples
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The last part is your autonomic nervous system, breathing, heart rate, a sleeping, eating, digestion, stuff that you don't consciously control.
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So the autonomic nervous system functions to help us live, eat, drink, sleep.
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So being able to take control of the autonomic nervous system is so powerful.
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Her autonomic nervous system is beginning to be affected.
Fiction book (1995) -
In addition, the male and female autonomic nervous systems respond differently to stress.
Academic text (2011) -
Emotion involves activation of the brain and the autonomic nervous system.
Blog text (9) -
Different emotions differ in patterns of brain activation, neurotransmitters released, and autonomic nervous system activity.
Blog text (9) -
The autonomic nervous system regulates involuntary actions like breathing and heart rate.
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Understanding how the autonomic nervous system works can help you manage your body’s stress responses.
Synonyms
The part of the body that controls automatic actions like heartbeat and digestion
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'autonomic' (involuntary regulation) + 'nervous' (relating to nerves) + 'system' (a set of cooperating parts) directly yields 'the part of the nervous system controlling involuntary functions.' This modifier–noun stacking is a standard productive pattern in English (and has clear equivalents in many languages), so a learner who knows the constituents can reasonably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Autonomic nervous system gets its name from the idea that autonomic means 'working by itself' — think of a clock that keeps going without someone touching it. So, it describes the body system that controls the heartbeat, breathing and digestion 'without thinking'.