pyramidal tract

Questions about pyramidal tract

What does pyramidal tract mean?

pyramidal 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 pyramidal tract?

Close synonyms include pyramidal motor system, corticospinal tract. 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 pyramidal tract a common word?

pyramidal 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.