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Fig. 250◊The long descending pathway of the pyramidal tract.

and foot are exaggerated out of proportion to the rest of the body and in
accordance with the complexity of the tasks they perform.
From the cortex, the motor fibres pass through the posterior limb of the
internal capsule (Fig. 248) where they are again organized in the sequence
of ‘face, arm, leg’, anteroposteriorly. From the internal capsule the fibres