long association fibers
long association fibers
[TA]nerve fibers interconnecting lobes or gyri of the cerebral cortex of the same hemisphere that are not immediately adjacent to each other; nerve fibers connecting noncontiguous segments of the spinal cord on the same side; fibers that interconnect distant points.
Synonym(s): fibrae associationes longae [TA]
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