extrapyramidal motor system

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Any of the various brain structures affecting bodily movement, excluding the motor neurons, the motor cortex, and the pyramidal tract, and including the corpus striatum, its substantia nigra and subthalamic nucleus, and its connections with the midbrain.

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Words nearby extrapyramidal motor system

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There were no deaths on scheduled commercial aviation flights in 2014, in a system that operates 68,000 flights a day.
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She fills her characters up—strong women beating back against a sexist system—with so much heart.
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A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system.
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“Stay in formation,” a sergeant from the ceremonial unit said over a public address system to the cops along the street.
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Both parties are now equal opportunity offenders when it comes to gaming the system.
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Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.
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As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
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The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.
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Accordingly, the question "How far does the note issue under the new system seem likely to prove an elastic one?"
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Thanks to Berthier's admirable system, Bonaparte was kept in touch with every part of his command.
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