Starting at the spinal cord, trace a motor pathway to the adductor muscles of the thigh, Included the spinal cord root, spinal nerve, nerve plexus, and specific peripheral nerve involved in the pathway.

The following are the Spinal cord pathway, both sensory and motor.

peripheral nerve - > sensory pathway - - > posterior root - > posterior horn - > anterior horn - > anterior root - > motor pathway

This is also the ascending and descending fiber pathways

* ascending / incoming / afferent / sensory pathways:

- sensory impulses carry different "feeling" (light touch, hot, cold)

Fiber pathways from specific area of body

* outgoing / efferent / descending / motor pathways:

- cause muscles to act

- in white matter of spinal cord

- cross over from one side of body to another in different levels (what

effects in phenomenon of left-sided stroke affecting the right side of

the body)