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Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.

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

A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.

Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

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. Carpenter.

commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.

Incitomotor.

A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.

applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. McKendrick.

Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion. Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.

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. [R.]

A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it.

Any agent capable of causing nervimotion. Dunglison.

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. -- n.

An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen or air or a mixture of the two into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.

Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated. [R.]

Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.

A series-wound motor.