释义 |
excitor|ɛkˈsaɪtə(r), -ɔː(r)| Cf. exciter. [f. excite v., on the analogy of motor.] a. = exciter. b. An afferent nerve belonging to the spinal division of the nervous system. Also attrib. or as adj.
1816Jane Austen Mansfield P. II. 126 All those fine feelings of which he had hoped to be the excitor, were already given. 1836M. Hall Lect. Nervous Syst. 15 The true Spinal Nerves. I. The Excitors. Ibid. 21 The incident excitor nerves, the medulla, and the reflex motor nerves, constitute the system. 1865Cornh. Mag. XI. 592 It is quite credible that the messenger of death operated through..the usual excitors of disease. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. III. iii. 674 Another excitor is a brush of fine wires. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §62 (1879) 63 Other excitor fibres..are included in the ordinary nerve-trunks. |