Calorimotor :: Calorimotor (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects..

Depressomotor :: Depressomotor (a.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity..

Depressomotor :: Depressomotor (n.) Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc..

Electromotor :: Electromotor (n.) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.

Electromotor :: Electromotor (n.) An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.

Excito-motor :: Excito-motor (a.) Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes..

Excito-motory :: Excito-motory (a.) Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition..

Ideo-motor :: Ideo-motor (a.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence..

Incito-motor :: Incito-motor (a.) Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor..

Incito-motory :: Incito-motory (a.) Incitomotor.

Inhibitory-motor :: Inhibitory-motor (a.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue..

Locomotor :: Locomotor (a.) Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.

Magnetomotor :: Magnetomotor (n.) A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena..

Manumotor :: Manumotor (n.) A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it..

Motor :: Motor (n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power..

Motor :: 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 :: Motor (n.) Alt. of Motoria.

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 :: Motorman (n.) A man who controls a motor.

Motorpathic :: Motorpathic (a.) Of or pertaining to motorpathy.

Motorpathy :: Motorpathy (n.) Kinesiatrics.

Motory :: Motory (n.) Alt. of Motoria.

Nervimotor :: Nervimotor (n.) Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.

Oculomotor :: 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.

Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (n.) The oculomotor nerve.

Phonomotor :: Phonomotor (n.) An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.

Psycho-motor :: Psycho-motor (a.) Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

Rheomotor :: Rheomotor (n.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.

Tetanomotor :: Tetanomotor (n.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

Vasomotor :: Vasomotor (a.) Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels..

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