Central Nervous System

"Central Nervous System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The main information-processing organs of the nervous system, consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and meninges.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Central Nervous System" by people in this website by year, and whether "Central Nervous System" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 240 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2022
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