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from The Century Dictionary.
- Passing toward the brain: said of nervous impulses and nerve-fibers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.
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- adjective physiology Going from the
spinal cord to thebrain , so as to transfersensations (centripetal impressions) from theexterior inwards.
Etymologies
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cerebrum + Latin petere to seek.
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