Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Passing from 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 brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.
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- adjective physiology Applied to those
nerve fibers which go from thebrain to thespinal cord , and sotransfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions ) outwards.
Etymologies
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cerebrum + Latin fugere to flee.
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