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Definition of Motor nerve
1. Noun. A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands.
Specialized synonyms: Anterior Horn, Anterior Root, Ventral Horn, Ventral Root, Corticospinal Tract, Pyramidal Motor System, Pyramidal Tract
Terms within: Efferent Neuron, Motoneuron, Motor Nerve Fiber, Motor Neuron, Efferent Fiber, Motor Fiber
Generic synonyms: Nerve, Nervus
Derivative terms: Efferent
Medical Definition of Motor nerve
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Motor Nerve
Literary usage of Motor nerve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... for the hypoglossal nerve, the motor nerve of the tongue ; (2) a common nucleus,
for a portion of the spinal accessory, vagus, and glosso-pharyngeal ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"This is ascribed by Bernstein to a delay in the process of stimulation at the
motor-nerve terminations, where the amount of latent power set free is to ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"In the second series, after the wide excision of all of the nerves to a muscle,
a motor nerve which supplied another muscle was cut and implanted into the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"By the junction a mixed nerve is formed, which is the sensory nerve for the lower
part of the face, and the skin of the temple, and the motor nerve for the ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"By the junction a mixed norve is formed, which is the sensory nerve for the lower
part of the face, and the skin of the temple, and the motor nerve for the ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"... that the rapidly succeeding impulses arising from the quicker rates of excitation
arc not transmitted unaltered through the motor nerve cells, ..."
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