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Definition of Effectors
1. effector [n] - See also: effector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effectors
Literary usage of Effectors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Physiological Psychology: A Treatise of the Activities and by George Trumbull Ladd, Robert Sessions Woodworth (1911)
"The receptors form the essential part of the sense-organs; the conductors of the
nerves; and the effectors of the muscles and other organs which produce ..."
2. Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1919)
"effectors: Muscles and Glands. — The other class of terminal organs, known as
effectors, lie at the peripheral terminals of the motor nerves. ..."
3. An Introduction to Neurology by Charles Judson Herrick (1922)
"CHAPTER V THE RECEPTORS AND effectors IN the further study of the nervous system
as the apparatus of adjustment between the activities of the body and those ..."
4. The Science of Human Behavior: Biological and Psychological Foundations by Maurice Parmelee (1913)
"One theory has been that the nervous system evolved before the effectors. ...
In view of our foregoing statement that the effectors form a necessary part of ..."
5. The Science of Human Behavior: Biological and Psychological Foundations by Maurice Parmelee (1913)
"One theory has been that the nervous system evolved before the effectors. ...
In view of our foregoing statement that the effectors form a necessary part of ..."
6. An Outline of psychobiology by Knight Dunlap (1917)
"THE FUNCTIONAL INTERRELATION OF RECEPTORS, NEURONS, AND effectors. THE human body
is a mechanism for producing response to stimulation. ..."
7. Elements of Physiological Psychology;...(thoroughly Rev. and Re-written) by by George Trumbull Ladd, Robert Sessions Woodworth (1915)
"The receptors form the essential part of the sense-organs; the conductors of the
nerves; and the effectors of the muscles and other organs which produce ..."
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