Part of the corticospinal tract located in the spinal cord, formed as 75 to 90% of the corticospinal fibers cross to the opposite side of the brainstem in the pyramidal decussation. This tract descends the length of the spinal cord in the lateral white column (Adapted from Brain Info). [ BIRNLEX:1095 ]

Synonyms: crossed pyramidal tract pyramidal tract, crossed corticospinal tract, crossed lateral pyramidal tract

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Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

latin term
tractus corticospinalis (pyramidalis) lateralis [ NeuroNames:801 ]

latin term
fasciculus cerebrospinalis lateralis [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_corticospinal_tract ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Spinal_cord_tracts_-_English.svg

has related synonym

tractus corticospinalis (pyramidalis) lateralis

lateral corticospinal tract

tractus corticospinalis lateralis

lateral corticospinal tract of the medulla

corticospinal tract, crossed

fasciculus cerebrospinalis lateralis

crossed corticospinal tract

id

UBERON:0002589