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Pressor :: Pressor (a.) Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor..

Efferent :: 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..

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..

Develop :: Develop (v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power..

Conine :: 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..

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

Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water..

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.

Fulgurating :: Fulgurating (a.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.

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

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

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..

Terebrating :: Terebrating (a.) Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia..

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

Horse Power :: Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor..

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

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

Brake :: 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..

Preataxic :: Preataxic (a.) Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.

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

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