- 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 horn of the spinal cord
--1 is a kind of motor nerve
--1 is a part of central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale
--1 has parts: basal ganglion