nerve pathway

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nerve
noun
uk
/nɜːv/us
/nɝːv/
a group of long, thin fibres (= structures like threads) that carry information or instructions between the brain and other parts of ...
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pathway
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɑːθ.weɪ/us
/ˈpæθ.weɪ/
a track that a person can ...
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Acoustic neuromas typically cause sensorineural hearing loss, meaning there is damage to the inner ear (cochlea) or nerve pathways from the inner ear to the brain.
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This includes impairment of one or more component of the visual system (eye structure, receptors, opticnervepathway, and visual cortex).
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The mediannervepathwaythen joins the posterior columns, sending off collateral branches to synapse in the midcervical cord.
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These have a separatenervepathwayto the brain and appear to primarily analyze pheromones.
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A key trigger point is one that has a pain referral pattern along anervepathwaythat activates a latent trigger point on the pathway, or creates it.
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These changes may involve nerve redistribution and transmitter and receptor expression leading to rearrangement of nerve pathways and altered function in pathological or 'normal' physiological conditions such as aging.
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Many complex nerve pathways are involved, as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of the desire to listen and the wish to communicate.
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A touch or painful stimulus, for example, creates a sensation in the brain only after information about the stimulus travels there via afferent nerve pathways.
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It was described as pioneering and keyhole surgery to partially interrupt the nerve pathways that control emotions.
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The nerve pathways from the eyes and ears carry the elicited electrical potentials into the thalamus.
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Also, when it is used on specific nerve pathways (local anesthetic nerve block), paralysis (loss of muscle power) can be achieved as well.
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The ganglia are connected with different organs through nerve pathways.
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Sensory and motor nerve pathways may be affected by interruption and/or compression of nerves.
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When it is used on specific nerve pathways (nerve block), effects such as analgesia (loss of pain sensation) and paralysis (loss of muscle power) can be achieved.
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He revealed how the sensation of pain is mediated by specific nerve pathways, and not, as has been previously suggested, conditioned by stimulation of other sensory pathways.
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