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corticospinal tract

NOUN
  1. 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

How To Use corticospinal tract In A Sentence

  • All rats first line of subarachnoid catheter, then the equivalent of T8 vertebral level and marked with micro scissors cut the spinal cord dorsal 2/3 rat corticospinal tract transection injury model.
  • The great majority of the pyramidal fibers which arise in the cerebral cortex and descend through the pyramids of the medulla cross in the decussation, most of the remainder forming the uncrossed ventral corticospinal tract.
  • They then descend through the genu and the posterior limb of the internal capsule. This pathway is known as the corticospinal tract.
  • Convergence on propriospinal neurons transmitting disynaptic excitation from the corticospinal tract and other dsescending tracts. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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