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Definition of Corticofugal
1. Adjective. Of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex. "Corticofugal discharges"
Definition of Corticofugal
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Describing a nerve fibre that originates in, and runs from the cerebral cortex ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Corticofugal
1. Passing in a direction away from the outer surface; denoting especially nerve fibres conveying impulses away from the cerebral cortex. Synonym: corticoefferent, corticofugal. Origin: L. Cortex, rind, bark, + fugio, to flee (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Corticofugal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"In the case of the corticofugal axones secondary degeneration with absorption
rapidly takes place; in the case of the corticopetal axones ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The projection fibers include long tracts like the pyramidal tracts (corticofugal)
and the various sensory conduction paths ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"It is likely, he believes, that a large portion of this path is not corticopetal
in conduction, but corticofugal. For the present, however, ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"Taking up what he considers the still more difficult problem of the centrifugal
or " corticofugal" component of the psychoneuroses he seeks to explain how ..."
5. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"The projection fibres unite the cortex of the hemispheres with the lower lying
parts of the brain and with the spinal cord—centrifugal or corticofugal ..."
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