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A bundle of nerve fibers following a path through the brain
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pathway
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bundle of mylenated nerve fibers following a path through the brain [syn: nerve pathway , tract , nerve tract ] a trodden path [syn: footpath ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from path + way (n.). An etymological tautology.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pathway \Path"way\, n. A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. --Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. --Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. --Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A footpath or other path or track. 2 (context biochemistry English) A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pathway is the third studio album by The Flaming Stars . As the title suggests, this was recorded at Pathway Studios , in common with some of the early Stiff Records recordings.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE biochemical ▪ To add to the confusion, we are not even certain about the biochemical pathway of vitamin C synthesis in plants. ▪ It is most directly seen in the case of biochemical pathways . ▪ Nowadays Prozac is ...
Usage examples of pathway.
The brain has now reached its maximum size and weight, any further changes being due to the formation of associative pathways along nerve centres.
He lay panting a moment, then started to crawl up the pathway, unwilling to trust his balky ankle on this rocky footing.
The pathway that has led from the demonstration of the immunological nature of the homograft reaction and its universality to the development of relatively effective but by no means completely satisfactory means of overcoming it for therapeutic purposes is an interesting one that can only be touched upon very briefly.
As her soft, slim form melded to his, he recalled some saying about the pathway to hell being paved with good intentions.
Among them I used to minish myself to the size of an ant and become a pioneer hewing out a pathway through virgin thickets.
He drew the pathways of the light rays from the anus to the eyeballs and back, splitting it into colorful rainbows and sophisticated spectra which he elaborated with multivariate complex equations and graphs.
The waitingmaids, who have escorted me to the door, fall on all fours as a final salute, and remain prostrate on the threshold as long as I am still in sight down the dark pathway, where the rain trickles off the great overarching bracken upon my head.
When they then stimulated the perforant pathway with a train of electrical impulses, at the rate of 10-100 per second for up to 10 seconds, they found an extraordinarily long-lasting increase in the firing of the hippocampal neurons of the dentate gyrus, persisting for up to ten hours.
She envisioned great spaceships crossing the universe without moving, guided by prescient navigators who could see safe pathways through space.
The time was still 08:02, but in one of those flashes of understanding when whole new synaptic pathways open up and ones brain undergoes a crash and rapid reboot, Pandora twigged.
Our little girl graduated the salutatorian of the Christian Pathways Academy.
As planned, his shishi friends were gathered for the ambush near the broken main gate that fronted the main pathway to the castle gate.
Smoke was curling out of the homestead, and as they stared in horror, they saw tiny dark human figures running down the pathway under the spathodea trees, carrying torches of dry, grass.
Illinois upon the pathway to statehood was what is so well known in our political history as the Ordinance of 1787.
Yagharek picked his bound feet up high, stumbling a little, and walked unerringly towards the pathway from where they had come.