pathway
pronunciation
How to pronounce pathway in British English:
UK [ˈpɑːθweɪ]
How to pronounce pathway in American English:
US [ˈpæθweɪ]
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- Noun:
- a bundle of mylenated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
- a trodden path
Word Origin
- pathway (n.)
- 1530s, from path + way (n.). An etymological tautology.
Example
- 1. That part is theventral visual pathway .
- 2. The problem is that this pathway will vary from cancer to cancer .
- 3. The result was a model that closely imitates the ventral visual pathway .
- 4. Dr venter , however , has succeeded in engineering a secretion pathway from another organism into experimental algae .
- 5. The new us study of zebrafish has identified a key cellular pathway that appears to trigger regeneration by switching on certain genes .