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nerve center
 
Noun nerve center has 2 senses
  1. nerve center, nerve centre - a center that provides information and control; "the nerve center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam"
    --1 is a kind of center, centre
  2. center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre - a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
    --2 is a kind of neural structure
    --2 has particulars:
     auditory center; rhinencephalon, olfactory brain; Broca's area, Broca's center, Broca's gyrus, Broca's convolution, convolution of Broca; Wernicke's area, Wernicke's center; superior colliculus; inferior colliculus; respiratory center
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