Sensory decussation

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Brain: Sensory decussation
The sensory tract.
Deep dissection of brain-stem. Ventral view.
Gray's	subject #187 777

The decussation of the sensory fibers of the fasciculus gracilis and fasciculus cuneatus is situated above that of the motor fibers, and is named the decussation of the lemniscus or sensory decussation.

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Superior terminations of the posterior fasciculi of the medulla spinalis.

Transverse section passing through the sensory decussation.

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