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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.

An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve of the motor.

A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.

An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

A heat engine; a hot-air engine.

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. Vasomotor center, the chief dominating or general center which supplies all the unstriped muscles of the arterial system with motor nerves, situated…

A water engine.

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.