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Olivospinal tract

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Olivospinal tract
Olivospinal tract is 2d, in red at bottom left.
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Identifiers
Latintractus olivospinalis
TA98A14.1.02.213
A14.1.02.223
FMA73992
Anatomical terminology

The olivospinal tract had been described as a tract arising in the inferior olivary nucleus of the medulla oblongata to descend in the lateral funiculus of the spinal cord and modulate the activity of spinal anterior grey column motor neurons. Its existence is now strongly doubted.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Snell, Richard S. (2010). Clinical Neuroanatomy (7th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-7817-9427-5.
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