corticospinal tract

Questions about corticospinal tract

What does corticospinal tract mean?

corticospinal tract means "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".

What is another word for corticospinal tract?

Close synonyms include pyramidal tract, pyramidal motor system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corticospinal tract a common word?

corticospinal tract is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.