NERVE TRACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nerve tract mean? 

• NERVE TRACT (noun)
  The noun NERVE TRACT has 1 sense:

1. a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

  Familiarity information: NERVE TRACT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVE TRACT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

nerve pathway; nerve tract; pathway; tract

Hypernyms ("nerve tract" is a kind of...):

substantia alba; white matter (whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nerve tract"):

optic radiation; radiatio optica (a nerve pathway from the lateral geniculate body to the visual cortex)

commissure (a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord)

cerebral peduncle; peduncle (a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain)

 Context examples 

In the context of reflex testing, the ability to elicit clonus indicates injury to the nerve tracts above the point at which the reflex was initiated.

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