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Noun: nervism
  1. The philosophical position adopted by Pavlov that all behavioral and physiological processes are regulated by the nervous system.
    "Based on the research of I. M. Sechenov, the concept of nervism was introduced into physiology by I. P. Pavlov in 1883."

Type of: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought

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