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- Motor - n. - One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.
- Motor - n. - A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.
- Motor - n. - Alt. of Motorial
- Motorial - n. - Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.
- Motorman - n. - A man who controls a motor.
- Motorpathic - a. - Of or pertaining to motorpathy.
- Motorpathy - n. - Kinesiatrics.
- Motory - n. - Alt. of Motorial
- Exodic - a. - Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
- Efferent - a. - Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.
- Irritation - n. - The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
- Winding - n. - A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
- Oculomotor - a. - Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit.
- Brake - v. t. - An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- Power - n. - A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
- Akinesia - n. - Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.
- Conine - n. - A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
- Chain wheel - - An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water.
- Kinesodic - a. - Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.
- Inhibitory-motor - a. - A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue.