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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A diffuse network of neurons that conducts impulses in all directions from the area stimulated, forming the nervous system in certain invertebrates such as the cnidarians.
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- noun biology Simplistic and uncentralized
nervous system ofcnidarians .
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