corticospinal tract

corticospinal tract

noun
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 [syn: pyramidal tract
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