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paralemniscal

paralemniscal adjective: describing a sensory pathway, parallel to the lemniscal pathway, that conducts impulses of touch etc to the region of the cortex.

Adjective

paralemniscal (not comparable)

  1. Describing a sensory pathway, parallel to the lemniscal pathway, that conducts impulses of touch etc to the region of the cortex.

Origin of paralemniscal

From para- + lemniscal.

Questions about paralemniscal

What does paralemniscal mean?
Paralemniscal means describing a sensory pathway, parallel to the lemniscal pathway, that conducts impulses of touch etc to the region of the cortex.
What part of speech is paralemniscal?
Paralemniscal is an adjective.

Words near paralemniscal in the dictionary

  1. paralelled
  2. paralelling
  3. paralells
  4. paralemmin
  5. paralemmins
  6. paralemniscal
  7. paralepidid
  8. paralepidids
  9. paralepses
  10. paralepsis
  11. paraletic

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