NERVE TRACT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

Synonyms:

nerve pathway; nerve tract; pathway; tract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("nerve tract" is a kind of...):

substantia alba; white matter (whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nerve tract"):

optic radiation; radiatio optica (a nerve pathway from the lateral geniculate body to the visual cortex)

commissure (a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord)

cerebral peduncle; peduncle (a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain)