motor pathway

collocation in English

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motor
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈməʊ.tər/us
/ˈmoʊ.t̬ɚ/
mainly UK
connected with cars or other vehicles that have engines and ...
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pathway
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɑːθ.weɪ/us
/ˈpæθ.weɪ/
a track that a person can ...
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(Definition ofmotorandpathwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These findings indicate that the large ganglionic neurons are output neurons to the descendingmotorpathwayfor both prey catching and avoidance behavior.
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Hauser concludes that the cingulate system is not the finalmotorpathway, but serves to modulate emotively based vocalizations.
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At highway speeds this additional generator/motorpathwayis less efficient than simply powering the wheels directly.
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Themotorpathwayis the corticospinal (pyramidal) tract and the medial and lateral vestibular tracts.
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Damage to the central nervous systemmotorpathwayfrom the cerebral cortex to the facial nuclei is found in the pons.
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Deafferentation is a surgical procedure that leaves the forelimbs of the monkeys with intact efferent motor pathways but no sensory feedback.
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Descending motor pathways and the spinal motor system: limbic and non-limbic components.
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Like other descending motor pathways, the vestibulospinal fibers of the tract relay information from nuclei to motor neurons.
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When two pathways, one cutaneous and one motor, are roughly comparable in size, the motor axons follow preferential reinnervation patterns along the motor pathways.
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These parts are interconnected in a series of feedback loops called motor pathways.
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These motor pathways, including the lateral corticospinal tract, are located in the lateral and ventral funiculi of the spinal cord.
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The motor pathways that enable hiccuping form early during fetal development, before the motor pathways that enable normal lung ventilation form.
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It is possible that the back and forth movement of fluid within the cyst causes rhythmic pressure on the diencephalic motor pathways.
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This syndrome is when motor control of skeletal muscles is affected due to damage to the efferent motor pathways.
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Research on cat's spinal cord has shown that at the spinal cord level sensory afferents and descending motor pathways converge onto common spinal interneurons.
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Electrical stimulation of the scalp can produce an electrical current within the brain that activates the motor pathways of the pyramidal tracts.
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