Definition of Extrapyramidal

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the neural pathways that are independent of the pyramidal tract ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extrapyramidal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Extrapyramidal

1. Outside of the pyramidal tracts. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extrapyramidal

extrapolated
extrapolates
extrapolating
extrapolation
extrapolations
extrapolative
extrapolator
extrapolators
extraposition
extrapositions
extraprofessional
extraprostatic
extraprovincial
extrapsychic
extrapulmonary
extrapyramidal (current term)
extrapyramidal cerebral palsy
extrapyramidal disease
extrapyramidal dyskinesias
extrapyramidal effect
extrapyramidal motor system
extrapyramidal motor system disease
extrapyramidal syndrome
extraradical
extrarational
extraregular
extrarenal
extraretinal
extraribosomal
extras

Literary usage of Extrapyramidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"PHILADELPHIA NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY itself in the comparison of extrapyramidal paralysis in the paraplegia of the aged, with or without pseudo-bulhar symptoms ..."

2. 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 (1916)
"... although it has been much Used by writers to show that an extrapyramidal symptomatology does not exist It is the business of the focal diagnostician by ..."

3. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"Neuroleptic Drug-Induced extrapyramidal Symptoms The extrapyramidal system is ... The extrapyramidal system influences and modifies electrical impulses that ..."

4. Treatment of Depression edited by Cynthia D. Mulrow (2000)
"Many extrapyramidal effects have been reported with newer antidepressants. ... For this report, we grouped serious, drug-induced extrapyramidal effects into ..."

5. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The extrapyramidal Motor Paths.—In recent years it has become increasingly evident that the pyramidal system is not the only channel through which ..."

6. Epidemic Encephalitis (encephalitis Lethargica) by Frederick Tilney, Hubert Shattuck Howe (1920)
"Indeed, this symptom has been credited to some extrapyramidal system. The hypertonus so generally seen in the paralysis agitans group of this disease ..."

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