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Motor nerve

noun

A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands. Synonyms: efferent, efferent nerve.

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"Motor nerve" Quotes from Famous Books

... change in a living subject produced by the closing of the electric current; the muscular contraction which takes place beneath the anode applied to the surface of the body when the circuit is closed, the kathode being applied elsewhere; it is due, presumably, to direct action on the motor nerve. It is a term in electro-therapeutics. It is the converse of anodic opening contraction, q. v. An abbreviation A. C. C. is often ...

— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

... attacked upon the surface of the hand have conveyed news of the assault through numberless intermediate sensory nerve cells to the brain. The brain in turn has sent out its mandate through the appropriate motor nerve cells to all the muscle and other cells surrounding the injured cell, commanding them to remove it from ...

— Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World • Warren Hilton

Words linked to "Motor nerve" : efferent neuron, pyramidal motor system, ventral root, efferent fiber, motor fiber, pyramidal tract, motoneuron, motor neuron, corticospinal tract, ventral horn, anterior root, nerve, anterior horn, nervus