pathway

pronunciation

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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 .

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