Presumably once he actually passed out his autonomic nervous system would take over again.
The pain is typically associated with involvement of the autonomic nervous system.
Cordelia knew she'd shut down everything in his autonomic system.
In the past she had tried only to shut autonomic nervous systems down.
In the biological metaphor, these are the hands and, to some degree, the memory of the autonomic system.
It is a method for influencing one's autonomic nervous system.
Systems 3-2-1 are identified with the ancient brain or autonomic nervous system.
And from what I've seen, there was some further damage to the autonomic system as well before we stabilized you.
And they have incredible control over their autonomic nervous systems.
They are considered to be part of the autonomic nervous system.