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Nerve tract   /nərv trækt/   Listen
Nerve tract

noun
1.
A bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain.  Synonyms: nerve pathway, pathway, tract.





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... must be conveyed along a perfectly definite channel; the response from the brain, sent out to the peripheral muscles, must traverse an equally definite and altogether different course. If either channel is interrupted—as by the section of its particular nerve tract—the corresponding message is denied transmission as effectually as an electric current is stopped by the section of the ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams


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