as·cend
vi : to move upward: as a : to conduct nerve impulses toward or to the brain <nerve fibers that to a nucleus of the brain> <ing and descending tracts> b : to affect the extremities and esp. the lower limbs first and then the central nervous system <ing paralysis> .
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