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pathway
(redirected from efferent pathway)

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pathway
1. Education courses taken by a student to gain entry to a higher course or towards a final qualification
2. Biochem a chain of reactions associated with a particular metabolic process


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1-3) The efferent pathway of these cold-sensitive preoptic neurons traverses the median forebrain bundle to terminate in the posterior hypothalamus, where axons proceed caudally through the mid-brain dorsolateral to the red nucleus to reach reticulospinal neurons located within the reticular formation of both the pons and medulla.
The presence of an intense SOAE and the absence of a DPOAE suggests a retrocochlear disorder of the efferent pathway from the brain, which in some cases can be reversed with drug therapy.
 
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