Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun corticospinal_tract

1 sense of corticospinal tract

Sense 1
pyramidal tract, pyramidal motor system, corticospinal tract -- (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)
       => motor nerve, efferent nerve, efferent -- (a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands)