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
   "Damage to the pyramidal tract can result in paralysis or weakness on the opposite side of the body";
   - pyramidal motor system, corticospinal tract

Derived forms: pyramidal tracts

Type of: efferent, efferent nerve, motor nerve

Part of: central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale

Encyclopedia: Pyramidal tract