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Spinal Tracts
A&P 201
Term | Definition |
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Ventral Spinocerebellar | Conducts impulses that originate in muscle stretch receptors to the brain to enhance muscle tone and coordinate skilled, voluntary movements. |
Dorsal Columns | Conducts general sensory information, e.g. discriminative touch, pressure, conscious proprioception. |
Lateral Corticospinal | Conducts impulses to efferent somatic neurons for the conscious voluntary control of skeletal muscles |
Ventral Spinothalamic | Conducts impulses that allow the brain to perceive crude touch and pressure. |
Lateral Spinothalamic | Conducts impulses that allow the brain to perceive pain and temperature. |