Term Name: | tectospinal tract |
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Synonyms: | tectospinal pathway, tectospinal tract, tectospinal tract of the medulla, tractus tectospinalis, tratto tettospinale@it |
Definition: | A long process of a CNS neuron, that carries efferent (outgoing) action potentials from the cell body in the superior colliculus of the midbrain towards target cells in the ventral spinal cord[GO]. |
Ontology: | Uberon Ontology [UBERON:0002949] |