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excitomotor

excitomotor is the alternative form of excitomotory.

Meaning of excitomotory

Adjective

excitomotory (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Exciting motion; said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve centre and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
    • excitomotory action

Questions about excitomotor

What is excitomotor the alternative form of?
Excitomotor is the alternative form of excitomotory.

Words near excitomotor in the dictionary

  1. excitings
  2. excitive
  3. excitives
  4. excito-
  5. excitoglandular
  6. excitomotor
  7. excitomotory
  8. exciton
  9. excitoneurotoxicity
  10. excitonic
  11. excitonically

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