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system noun arrangement, artificium, classification, formula, logical process, manner, means, method, modeof management, operation, order, orderliness, orderly combiiation, organization, pattern, plan, policy, practice, procedure, process, program, recipe, regime, regimen, regularity, scheme, settled procedure, state of order, strategy, technique, way
Associated concepts: commercial system, governmental system, judicial system, legal system, retirement system
See also: arrangement, array, avenue, bureaucracy, codification, complex, contrivance, course, development, device, doctrine, form, guide, hierarchy, institute, means, method, mode, modus operandi, opportunity, order, plan, practice, procedure, process, program, rule, scheme, strategy, usage


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Poliomyelitis is an enterovirus, appearing in 3 strains (types I, II, and III), that attacks the anterior horn cells, brain stem, and reticular activating system in people with the disease.
In these carefully constructed ads, the psychologists seek to create activity in the cortico-reticular loop of the brain's ascending reticular activating system in order to tweak your BAS - behavioral approach system - so you will feel compelled to seek out pleasant stimuli, i.
The researchers supported previous studies showing that the ability to concentrate is based on the reticular activating system of the brain.
 
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