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Noun: reticular activating system
  1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function
    "The patient's reticular activating system was affected, causing consciousness issues";
    - RAS

Derived forms: reticular activating systems

Type of: neural net, neural network

Part of: reticular formation, RF

Encyclopedia: Reticular activating system