ascending: Ascending neuropathy is a disease of the nervous system that begins at a lower part in the body and spreads (where?).

• upward
• inside
• to the back
• to the front
• downward

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ascending neuritis, a nerve inflammation that begins on the periphery and moves upward along a nerve trunk;

ascending neuropathy, a disease of the nervous system that begins at a lower place in the body and spreads upward;

ascending poliomyelitis, which refers to poliomyelitis (polio) that begins in the legs and spreads upward to involve the trunk and respiratory muscles.

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