Medical Definition of Anterolateral system

1. A composite bundle of fibres, located in the ventrolateral part of the lateral funiculus, containing spinothalamic, spinohypothalamic, spinoreticular, and spinomesencephalic (spinotectal, spinal to periaqueductal grey, etc.) fibres; occupies the combined areas of the spinal white matter historically divided into anterior and lateral spinothalamic tracts; located in white matter ventral to the denticulate ligament, hence the anatomical basis for the anterolateral cordotomy; concerned with the transmission of nociceptive and thermal information and with crude (nondiscriminative) touch. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anterolateral System

anterograde transport
anterogradely
anteroinferior
anteroinferior myocardial infarction
anterointernal
anterolateral
anterolateral central arteries
anterolateral column of spinal cord
anterolateral cordotomy
anterolateral fontanel
anterolateral groove
anterolateral myocardial infarction
anterolateral striate arteries
anterolateral sulcus
anterolateral surface of shaft of humerus
anterolateral system (current term)
anterolateral thalamostriate arteries
anterolateral tractotomy
anteromedial
anteromedial central arteries
anteromedial central branches
anteromedial surface of shaft of humerus
anteromedial thalamic nucleus
anteromedial thalamostriate arteries
anteromedian
anteromedian groove
anteroom
anterooms
anteroposterior

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