Definition of motor

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Motor (n.) Alt. of Motoria.

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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..
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..
Excito-motion :: Excito-motion (n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
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..
Winding :: 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..
Motorman :: Motorman (n.) A man who controls a motor.
Nervimotor :: Nervimotor (n.) Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.
Pilocarpine :: Pilocarpine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.
Manumotor :: Manumotor (n.) A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it..
Exodic :: Exodic (a.) Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
Fulgurating :: Fulgurating (a.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
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..
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..
Motorpathy :: Motorpathy (n.) Kinesiatrics.
Rheomotor :: Rheomotor (n.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
Mover :: Mover (n.) A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor..
Motor :: Motor (n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power..
Terebrating :: Terebrating (a.) Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia..
Excito-motor :: Excito-motor (a.) Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes..
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