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Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Spinal Cord > Spinothalamic Tracts
Nervous System > Neural Pathways > Afferent Pathways > Spinothalamic Tracts

Preferred term

Spinothalamic Tracts  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Scope note

  • A bundle of NERVE FIBERS connecting each posterior horn of the spinal cord to the opposite side of the THALAMUS, carrying information about pain, temperature, and touch. It is one of two major routes by which afferent spinal NERVE FIBERS carrying sensations of somaesthesis are transmitted to the THALAMUS.

History note

  • 71

In other languages

  • selkäydin-talamusradat

    Finnish

  • anterolateraalinen järjestelmä
  • etu-sivujuostejärjestelmä
  • selkäydin-talamusrata
  • spino-talaaminen rata
  • spino-talaamiset radat
  • spinotalaaminen järjestelmä
  • spinotalaaminen rata
  • spinotalaamiset radat
  • tractus spinothalamicus
  • Spinotalamiska banor

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013133

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