Corticospinal Tract

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any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord

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Classifications

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Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: pyramidal tract
plural: Corticospinal Tracts
possessive: Corticospinal Tract's
pluralpossessive: Corticospinal Tracts'

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