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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