Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Motorial"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Motor \Mo"tor\, Motory \Mo"to*ry\, Motorial \Mo*to"ri*al\, a.
[L. motorius that has motion. See {Motor}, 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

motorial
adj : (physiology) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying
information away from the CNS; "efferent nerves and
impulses" [syn: {efferent}] [ant: {afferent}]


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