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sensory pathway

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sensory pathway
Etymology: L, sentire, to feel; AS, paeth + weg
the route followed by a sensory nerve impulse from an end organ to a reflex center in the brain or spinal cord.


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Researchers at Duke University Medical Centre have developed a prosthetic device, which applies electrical stimulation to the dorsal column in the spinal cord, the main sensory pathway carrying tactile information from the body to the brain.
ALTERNATIVE SENSORY PATHWAYS IN THE INJURED SPINAL CORD Although researchers generally agree that interruption of the spinothalamic tract contributes to SCI pain and specifically to below-level pain, interruption of other pathways and/or abnormal activity in alternative sensory systems may also participate in the expression of below-level pain [72,81].
Perhaps Behe's book is misleading in suggesting that the reaction sequence in eyes had to evolve from scratch, because similar pathways exist for other sensory-neural pathways; however, Behe no doubt would contend that an antecedent pathway would still leave the origin of the first complex sensory pathway to be explained and that it would be irreducibly complex.
 
 
 
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