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reticular activating system

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
retic-u-lar ac-ti-vat-ing sys-tem
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function

Synonyms

RAS

Questions

What does reticular activating system mean?
the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function

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