tract

Japanese: tract
tract

...In addition, even if a nucleus can be recognized morphologically as a single nerve nucleus, its function may be unclear or it may be involved in several functions.
[Nerve Pathways or Conduction Pathways]
When the axons of neurons that make up a certain nerve nucleus run together and show a strong tendency to be organized as a group of nerve fibers and are distinguished from the surrounding structures, they are sometimes called nerve tracts (nerve conduction paths or conduction pathways). The concept of a "neural tract" is based on the idea that "groups of neurons with the same connection relationship, and therefore with the same functional meaning, are gathered together."

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "tract" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,形態上は一つの神経核として認識できる場合でも,その機能がよくわからないものや,いくつかの機能に関与する神経核もある。
[神経路または伝導路]
 ある神経核を構成するニューロンの軸索が集合して走行し,これらが神経繊維群としてのまとまりの傾向を強く示し,周囲の構造から区別される場合,それらを神経路tract(神経伝導路または伝導路)と呼ぶことがある。〈神経路〉の概念の根底には,〈同じ連絡関係をもつニューロン群,したがって同じ機能的意味をもつニューロン群は集合する〉という考えがある。…

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