How to Use autonomic nervous system in a Sentence

autonomic nervous system

noun

• This is the largest nerve of the autonomic nervous system - extending from the brain to the colon - and plays a key role in heart, lung and digestive function.
  — Carrie Dennett, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
• This is one half of your autonomic nervous system, all of which works without your needing to think about it.
  — Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
• He was knighted in 1975 for his work in researching the failures of the autonomic nervous system.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• The autonomic nervous system is comprised of all the things that the nervous system does without our awareness.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2022
• Nerve fibers send a message about lower salt levels to your brain, and the autonomic nervous system responds by constricting the blood vessels.
  — Guy German, Binghamton University, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Sleep is a cornerstone of your health, and not getting enough (that’s at least seven hours a night for people 18 and over) can greatly affect your autonomic nervous system (ANS).
  — Alison Goldman, SELF, 21 May 2018
• The autonomic nervous system is tasked with the job of regulating the speed at which food transits through the gut, the secretion of acid in our stomach, and the production of mucus on the intestinal lining.
  — Justin Sonnenburg, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
• Her main finding was endocrine dysfunction in what’s known as the autonomic nervous system, which primes people’s fight-or-flight response.
  — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2022
• Your heart is connected with your pancreas via the autonomic nervous system.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2018
• Cold water on your face can calm your autonomic nervous system, decreasing your heart rate and slowing your breathing.
  — Kathryn Watson, SELF, 30 Nov. 2022
• No changes in the autonomic nervous system or skeletomotor actions are, in and of themselves, meaningful as fear.
  — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
• Therefore, research suggests that singing, even loudly, may activate our autonomic nervous system by massaging the muscles at the back of our throat and ears.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• This sudden weakening of the heart muscles likely occurs because the autonomic nervous system is out of balance, Reynolds says.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
• The fruit's essential oil is thought to affect the autonomic nervous system activity, which plays an integral role in the mind-body connection.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• Just the presence of indoor plants can lower human stress levels, research shows, and one study found that actively caring for plants calmed the autonomic nervous system and lowered blood pressure.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
• The only way the recovery process can take place is through activation of the parasympathetic aspect of your autonomic nervous system.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 30 June 2021
• Other studies since then have demonstrated that just looking at pictures of natural scenes can change the way a person’s autonomic nervous system responds to stress.
  — Richard Taylor, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
• The other half of your autonomic nervous system is the sympathetic nervous system.
  — Anne R. Crecelius, The Conversation, 20 June 2019
• The rise in blood pressure is in large part mediated by the autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system responsible for the unconscious control of bodily functions.
  — Russell Foster, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• Functions like breathing, blinking, your heart pumping or your pupils constricting in the sun all happen without your needing to consciously control them, thanks to the autonomic nervous system.
  — Guy German, Binghamton University, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• Octopuses have a fairly unusual autonomic nervous system, with many neurons present in the tentacles rather than the brain.
  — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2010
• The autonomic nervous system also fulfills a pivotal role in stress tolerance.
  — Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 3 June 2014
• But purposeful breathing can trigger your parasympathetic system, or the part of your autonomic nervous system that opposes the fight-flight-freeze response.
  — Emily Shiffer, SELF, 3 Nov. 2020
• But those, too, result from nerve dysfunction, often in the autonomic nervous system, which directs our bodies to breathe and digest food and generally runs our organs on autopilot.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• Scientists have known that electrical stimulus triggers the autonomic nervous system for roughly 20 years, first by testing on mice and later on humans.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 4 May 2023
• Dysautonomia impairs the autonomic nervous system, a network of nerves that branch out from the brain or spinal cord and extend through the body, controlling unconscious functions such as heartbeat, breathing, sweating and blood vessel dilation.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• But breathing is also the key to accessing your parasympathetic nervous system, the aspect of your autonomic nervous system tasked with recovery and restoration.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 31 Aug. 2020
• The other will target problems with the autonomic nervous system — which controls unconscious functions like breathing and heartbeat — including the disorder called POTS.
  — Lauran Neergaard, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Our autonomic nervous system has two branches: the sympathetic nervous system (or gas) and the parasympathetic nervous system (or brakes).
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• This is an umbrella term for disorders that disturb the autonomic nervous system, which controls bodily functions such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, and digestion.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024