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. [ MP:0002878 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]

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

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Term information

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

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
fibrae corticospinales [ NeuroNames:1320 ]

latin term
tractus corticospinalis [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corticospinal_tract NeuroNames:1320 ]

latin term
tractus pyramidalis [ NeuroNames:800 ]

latin term
fasciculus cerebro-spinalis [ NeuroNames:1320 ]

latin term
tractus cortico-spinalis [ NeuroNames:1320 ]

latin term
fasciculus pyramidalis [ NeuroNames:800 ]

depicted by

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

has broad synonym

pyramidal tract

has alternative id

UBERON:0004095

id

UBERON:0002707

present in taxon

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