The Dorsal Column-Medial Lemniscal Pathway Is a Pathway for the Nociceptors

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The dorsal column-medial lemniscal pathway is a pathway for the nociceptors (pain) and thermoreceptors (temperature) that travels up the contralateral side of spinal column and does not synapse in the brain until the ventral posterior nucleus of the thalamus.

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