This pathway conducts sensory stimuli concerned with proprioceptive information about limb position and discriminative touch, precise pressure, and vibration sensations. It projects through the spinal cord, brainstem, and diencephalon before terminating within the cerebral cortex.

A. The posterolateral pathway
B. The musculomedial pathway
C. The spinocerebellar pathway
D. The posterior funiculus-medial lemniscal pathway
E. The anterolateral pathway


Answer: D

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