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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.

, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.

aratus for generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by friction. -- Electric motor. See Electro-motor,

Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.

Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor.

An ideo-motor movement.

A machine built as an induction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction motor; at synchronism the power component of current becomes zero and chang…

ior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

ry. Lamb. Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.

exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.

ied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.

Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent. Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.

ndividual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of t…

al agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to machinery; a motor; a mover.

A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.

A promotory or headland.

to two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

ius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.