PYRAMIDAL MOTOR SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pyramidal motor system mean? 

• PYRAMIDAL MOTOR SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun PYRAMIDAL MOTOR SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PYRAMIDAL MOTOR SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYRAMIDAL MOTOR SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Synonyms:

corticospinal tract; pyramidal motor system; pyramidal tract

Hypernyms ("pyramidal motor system" is a kind of...):

efferent; efferent nerve; motor nerve (a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands)

Meronyms (parts of "pyramidal motor system"):

basal ganglion (any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement)

Holonyms ("pyramidal motor system" is a part of...):

central nervous system; CNS; systema nervosum centrale (the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord)