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ˈpsycho-ˈmotor, a.
Also without hyphen.
[f. psycho- + motor.]
a. Inducing movement by psychic or mental action; involving such movement.
1878tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 699 Neither do I see any advantage to be gained from the use of the term ‘psycho-motor’ to denote voluntary movements. 1879Jrnl. Mental Sci. XXIV. 677 The ‘Psychiatrischer Centralblatt’ for August.., 1877, gives a résumé of the inaugural dissertation..of Dr. Pasternaki, who has studied the question of what he calls the Psychomotor Centres of the Brain. 1890Billings Med. Dict., Psycho-motor centres, brain-centres producing voluntary movements. P.-m nerve-fibres, cortico⁓muscular nerve-fibres. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 392 This phenomenon has been described under the name of psycho-motor verbal hallucination. 1961Aeroplane & Astronautics CI. 679/1 It was agreed that the animals selected for this programme should be capable of learning simple psycho⁓motor tasks which could be performed during flight. 1976Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry v. 62 In depressed patients speech tends to be slow, monotonous, and sad-sounding, in keeping with the general psychomotor slowing.
b. Med. Applied to a partial seizure or epileptic attack (distinct from grand mal and petit mal) characterized by a state of altered consciousness in which simple or complex automatisms may be performed for which there is subsequently at least partial amnesia.
1938Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry XXV. 268 The three main manifestations of epilepsy (grand mal, petit mal and psychomotor epilepsy) are each accompanied by a distinct pattern of disrhythmia. 1961Listener 7 Dec. 967/2 An attack of psychomotor epilepsy. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xi. 212 Diphenylhydantoin..is also useful against psychomotor seizures.
Hence psychomoˈtoric, -moˈtorical adjs., of or pertaining to psychomotor activity; psychomoˈtorically adv.
1964L. Kaiser in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 102 Both ways of coding and decoding show a high degree of similarity, psychomotoric patterns based on language leading to neuromuscular activity, which in its turn leads to spatial coding in both cases. 1969Indian Mus. Jrnl. V. 83 Music is a much directer form of expression (psychomotorically), than painting, sculpture..and ornaments. Ibid. 84 These psychomotorical expressions are not in the least outbursts of uncontrolled emotions. The hands of the singers accompany in refined movements the path of the voice. |