nerve centre

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nerve centre - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nerve centre
      n 1: a center that provides information and control; "the nerve
           center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam" [syn:
           nerve center, nerve centre]
      2: a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process;
         "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
         [syn: center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre]