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Preferred term

Pyramidal Tracts  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Corticobulbar Tract
  • Corticobulbar Tracts
  • Corticospinal Tract
  • Corticospinal Tracts
  • Decussation, Pyramidal
  • Pyramidal Decussation
  • Tract, Corticobulbar
  • Tract, Corticospinal
  • Tracts, Corticobulbar
  • Tracts, Corticospinal

Scope note

  • Fibers that arise from cells within the cerebral cortex, pass through the medullary pyramid, and descend in the spinal cord. Many authorities say the pyramidal tracts include both the corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts.

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • fasciculus pyramidalis
  • kortikospinaaliradat
  • kortikospinaalirata
  • pyramidaaliradat
  • pyramidaalirata
  • pyramidirata
  • tractus corticospinalis
  • tractus pyramidalis
  • Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011712

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