释义 |
excito-motory, a. Phys.|ɛkˌsaɪtəʊˈməʊtəɪ| [f. excit-or + motory; formed by Marshall Hall in 1836.] Of or pertaining to the spinal group of nerves, composed of the excitor and the motor nerves. Often applied to the reflex actions which are produced by this division of the nervous system.
1836M. Hall Lect. Nervous Syst. 12, I propose to divide [the Nervous System] into 1. The Cerebral..2. The True Spinal or the Excito-motory; and 3. The Ganglionic. 1847Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 609/2 A distinct series of excito⁓motory fibres. 1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 189 Besides this excito-motory system..the Nudibranches possess a ‘sympathetic’ system. 1861T. Graham Pract. Med. 593 In infancy, when the voluntary power is as yet undeveloped, the excito-motory is in the fullest activity. |