• Peripheral nervous system is outside of the brain and spinal cord; it has autonomic and somatic divisions; the autonomic nervous system includes the enteric, parasympathetic, and sympathetic subdivisions and the somatic nervous system includes the cranial and spinal nerves and their ganglia and the peripheral sensory receptors.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Set of neural tree organs directly connected to neuraxis.
  Foundational Model of Anatomy
  University of Washington, 2017
• That part of the nervous system consisting of the nerves and neurons that reside or extend outside the central nervous system.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• The nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system has autonomic and somatic divisions. The autonomic nervous system includes the enteric, parasympathetic, and sympathetic subdivisions. The somatic nervous system includes the cranial and spinal nerves and their ganglia and the peripheral sensory receptors.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• The parts of the nervous system outside of the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• The peripheral nervous system refers to the parts of the nervous system that are outside the central nervous system, that is, those outside the brain and spinal cord.
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
• The peripheral nervous system refers to parts of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. It includes the cranial nerves, spinal nerves and their roots and branches, peripheral nerves, and neuromuscular junctions.
  Medscape
  WebMD, 2019