climbing fibers

climbing fibers
clinging fibers afferent fibers arising in part from the middle cerebellar peduncle and passing through the granular layer of the cerebellar cortex to terminate on Purkinje cell dendrites. Called also tendril f's. Cf. mossy f's.

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