How to Use peripheral nervous system in a Sentence

peripheral nervous system

noun
  • These cells can be found in the brain, and in both the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system.
    — Cbd Scout, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Schwannomas arise from nerve cells called Schwann cells, which are part of the peripheral nervous system.
    — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 26 May 2018
  • The peripheral nervous system is composed of all the nerves located outside the brain and spinal cord.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system, while the nerves running from them form the peripheral nervous system.
    — Lynn Peterson Mobley, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • The ancient disease attacks the skin, peripheral nervous system and even the bones themselves.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The peripheral nervous system helps the body to manage pain and inflammation.
    — Michael Wright, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • And the peripheral nervous system, which carries pain signals from the source, can be involved in chronic pain — along with, or instead of, the spinal cord and brain.
    — Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The peripheral nervous system, which relays information from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body — from vital organs to skin — has gotten relatively short shrift.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • These receptors are found in the peripheral nervous system and immune cells, including those related to pain sensation.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome occurs when the body’s own immune system attacks and injures the nerves outside of the spinal cord or brain – the peripheral nervous system.
    — Aarti Sarwal, The Conversation, 7 July 2020
  • The disease mostly impacts the skin and the peripheral nervous system, according to the EID.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Fight or flight gut check The study focused on a subset of the peripheral nervous system called the sympathetic nervous system, which becomes active when the brain detects danger.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Another portal may be situated in the peripheral nervous system, which conveys sensory and motor impulses from muscles, organs and skin to the brain and spinal cord.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The lack of serotonin, in turn, disrupts connectivity between the peripheral nervous system and the brain, causing neurologic symptoms.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is thought to be an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its own peripheral nervous system, starting with the feet and hands.
    — Jenny Blair, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
  • Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system.
    — Brandon Girod, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • The toxin acts on both the central and peripheral nervous systems and can cause numbness, increasing stages of paralysis, gastrointestinal distress and respiratory failure.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Long-term, debilitating nerve pain, called postherpetic neuralgia, is the most common complication of shingles because the varicella-zoster virus hides in the peripheral nervous system.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • In the neuromuscular area, the company is looking into multiple diseases driven by genetic defects in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and the peripheral nervous system.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The human body has an endocannabinoid system (ECS), a complex network of receptors scattered throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Leprosy primarily affects the skin and peripheral nervous system, causing physical deformity and desensitizing one’s ability to feel pain on affected skin.
    — Robert A. Schwartz, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The investigation of soft materials was initiated with optogenetic pain research in the peripheral nervous system specifically in mind.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
  • According to Zak, as part of a multi-million dollar government effort, his lab measured central and peripheral nervous system activity simultaneously.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • When a nerve agent shuts down this enzyme, classes of neurons throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems quickly get overstimulated, leading to profuse sweating, convulsions and an excruciating death by asphyxiation.
    — Ian Haydon, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2017
  • While opioids primarily work by dulling sensations in the brain, the new drug, in fifty milligram oral tablets, is reported to reduce pain by targeting a pain-signaling pathway involving a specific sodium channel in the peripheral nervous system, before the pain signals reach the brain.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Adam remained in a coma for five days, before being diagnosed with an unidentified viral infection that led to the onset of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system.
    — Crystal Ponti, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The team is designing and validating a robust recovery biomarker enabling a first-ever stroke rehabilitation RST based on exchanges between regions of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Last month, Ashley, 34, revealed that her husband was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological disorder in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nervous system.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 14 Jan. 2020

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