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English noun: pyramidal tract

1. pyramidal tract (body) 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


Synonymscorticospinal tract, pyramidal motor system


Broader (hypernym)efferent, efferent nerve, motor nerve


Part holonymbasal ganglion


Part meronymcentral nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale









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