lemniscus (redirected from Medial lemniscus)

lemniscus /lem·nis·cus/ (lem-nis´kus) pl. lemnis´ci   [L.]

1. a ribbon or band.

2. a band or bundle of fibers in the central nervous system.

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lem·nis·cus (lm-nsks)

n. pl. lem·nis·ci (-ns, -nsk, -nsk)

A bundle of nerve fibers ascending from sensory nuclei in the spinal cord and the rhombencephalon to the thalamus.

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lemniscus

[lemnis′kəs]

Etymology: Gk, lemniskos, fillet

a band or tract of central nervous system fibers, particularly the ascending axons of secondary sensory neurons leading to the thalamus.

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lemniscus

pl. lemnisci [L.] a ribbon or band; a band or bundle of nerve fibers in the central nervous system.

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medial lemniscus

an ascending tract of sensory nerve fibers in the medulla oblongata.