pathway

Definition of Pathway in English :

a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

2. footpath, pathway

a trodden path

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pathway

noun

1. another word for path (sense 1), path (sense 2)

2.

a route to or way of access to; way of reaching or achieving something

3.

courses taken by a student to gain entry to a higher course or towards a final qualification

4. biochemistry

a chain of reactions associated with a particular metabolic process

noun

path1

n.

1. A path.

2. Physiology

a. A course usually followed by a body part or process.

b. A chain of nerve fibers along which impulses normally travel.

c. A sequence of enzymatic or other reactions by which one biological material is converted to another.