reticular activating system (RAS)

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• Reticular activating system — Infobox Brain Name = Reticular activating system Latin = GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Deep dissection of brain stem. Ventral view. (Reticular formation labeled near center.) Caption2 = IsPartOf = Components = Artery = Vein = BrainInfoType …   Wikipedia

• reticular activating system — n a part of the reticular formation that extends from the brain stem to the midbrain and thalamus with connections distributed throughout the cerebral cortex and that controls the degree of activity of the central nervous system (as in… …   Medical dictionary

• reticular activating system — noun the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function • Syn: ↑RAS • Hypernyms: ↑neural network, ↑neural net • Part Holonyms: ↑reticular formation, ↑RF …   Useful english dictionary

• reticular formation — noun a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem; monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone • Syn: ↑RF • Hypernyms: ↑neural network, ↑neural net • Part… …   Useful english dictionary

• RAS — or Ras may refer to:People and titles*Hans Ras (1926 2003), Dutch philologist * Rais, Urdu honorific for chieftain *Registered Accessibility Specialist *Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, a public broadcaster whose purpose is to relay programming from… …   Wikipedia

• RAS — Abbreviation for reticular activating system. * * * radiologist aid system [digital mammography algorithm]; rapid atrial stimulation; recurrent aphthous stomatitis; reflex activating stimulus; reliability, availability, serviceability; remote… …   Medical dictionary

• system — 1. [TA] A consistent and complex whole made up of correlated and semiindependent parts. A complex of functionally related anatomic structures. 2. The entire organism seen as a complex organization of parts. 3. Any complex of structures… …   Medical dictionary

• RAS — • radiologist aid system [digital mammography algorithm]; • rapid atrial stimulation; • recurrent aphthous stomatitis; • reflex activating stimulus; • reliability, availability, serviceability; • remote access service; • renal artery stenosis; •… …   Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations

• RAS — noun the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function • Syn: ↑reticular activating system • Hypernyms: ↑neural network, ↑neural net • Part Holonyms: ↑reticular formation, ↑RF …   Useful english dictionary

• RAS — Russian Academy Of Sciences (Academic & Science » Universities) *** Royal Astronomical Society (Academic & Science » Ocean Science) ** Remote Access Service (Computing » Networking) ** Remote Access Server (Computing » Networking) * Reliability… …   Abbreviations dictionary

• Coma — For other uses, see Coma (disambiguation). Coma ICD 10 R40.2 ICD 9 780.01 In medicine, a coma (from the Greek κῶμα koma, meaning deep slee …   Wikipedia