excito-motoryadj.
/ɛkˌsʌɪtəʊˈməʊtəi/ Physiology.
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.
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excito-motory1836
motoric1852
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excito-motor1870
strio-1877
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1836 M. 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.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 609/2 A distinct series of excito~motory fibres.
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 189 Besides this excito-motory system..the nudibranches possess a sympathetic system.
1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 593 In infancy, when the voluntary power is as yet undeveloped, the excito-motory is in the fullest activity.
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