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corticospinal tract

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The corticospinal fibers that arise from the pyramidal cells within the cerebral cortex layer V of the precentral motor area, the premotor area and the postcentral gyrus, then descend into and through the medulla to form the lateral corticospinal tract and the anterior corticospinal tract. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ MP:0002878 ]

Synonyms: tractus cortico-spinalis, tractus corticospinalis, fasciculus cerebro-spinalis, corticospinal fibers, fasciculus pyramidalis, pyramid (Willis), tractus pyramidalis, fibrae corticospinales

Term info

database cross reference
  • DMBA:17756
  • SCTID:362325000
  • UMLS:C0034229 (BIRNLEX:1464)
  • MBA:784
  • GAID:702
  • neuronames:800 (BIRNLEX:1464)
  • MESH:D011712
  • BAMS:P
  • neuronames:1320
  • HBA:265505574
  • BIRNLEX:1464
  • DHBA:12776
  • BM:Me-PyT
  • BM:CST
  • FMA:72634
  • MBA:190
  • Wikipedia:Corticospinal_tract
  • EMAPA:36600
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Gray684.png

has alternative id

UBERON:0004095

has broad synonym

pyramidal tract

id

UBERON:0002707

prefLabel

Pyramidal tract

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606