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
How To Use pyramidal tract In A Sentence
- Only the rats with electrolytic damage of pyramidal tract were paralyzed with low mortality.
- At the medullary level, the medial lemniscus (which contains the 2nd neuron axons in the pathway for proprioceptive and tactile sensations) is found dorsal to the pyramidal tract and medial to the olivary nucleus.
- There is no sensory loss or involvement of the pyramidal tracts.
- Flechzig has developed this law, that "medullated nerve fibers appear first in the region of the pyramidal tracts and corona radiata, and extend from them to the convolutions and periphery of the brain," being practically completed about the eighth year. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
- Definite and early diagnosis of NBD is important, because diffuse involvement of the pyramidal tract may result in a poor response to steroid therapy.
- Dorsolateral to the pyramidal tract, the medial accessory olivary nucleus, which is not present at lower levels, has just appeared.