pathway
Pronunciation: /ˈpɑːθweɪ/
noun
- a way that constitutes or serves as a path: a tree-lined pathway the crags and cornices of the mountainous pathways
- Physiology a route, formed by a chain of nerve cells, along which impulses of a particular kind usually travel: these neural pathways control vocalization
- (also metabolic pathway) Biochemistry a sequence of chemical reactions undergone by a compound or class of compounds in a living organism: enzymes of the glycolytic pathway the principal regulatory step in the biosynthetic pathway of cholesterol