Medical Definition of Tractus
1. Synonym: tract. Origin: L. A drawing, drawing out, extent, tract, fr. Traho, pp. Tractus, to draw (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tractus
Literary usage of Tractus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The olfactory bulb and tractus ; sometimes also extended to include the lobus
... tractus Cortico-spinalis. The great motor laths from the cerebrum to the ..."
2. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"tractus spino-olivaris, fibers arising from the entire length of the spinal cord
and terminating in the inferior olive (Goldstein). ..."
3. The Nervous System of Vertebrates by John Black Johnston (1906)
"In bony fishes it is divided into the two large nuclei dorsalis and ventralis (nucleus
rotundus Fritsch). From these nuclei arise the large tractus ..."
4. An Introduction to neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1918)
"tractus spino-olivaris, fibers arising from the entire length of the spinal cord
and terminating in the inferior olive (Goldstein). ..."
5. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1899)
"Horizontal section through the bulbus and tractus ... Tr.o, tractus olfactorius;
jrN, islands of gray substance; , anterior bundle of white substance. later ..."
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