motricityn.
/məʊˈtrɪsᵻti/, U.S. /moʊˈtrɪsᵻdi/ Physiology.
Motor function; the faculty or power of movement by the body or a body part.
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1862 Proc. Royal Soc. 1860–62 11 438 Sensory symptoms... Symptoms of motricity.
1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 55 So soon as the cause of each accident of this kind was traced.., the perversion of sensibility or of motricity disappeared.
1919 Athenæum 23 May 360/2 ‘Motricity’..may secure a permanent footing [in the language].
1960 Science 6 May 1372/2 From the point of view of motricity, the delay, evolution and control of the contractions of tympanic muscles can be compared with..other motor facilitations induced by reticular activation.
1984 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. C. 79 343 The motricity of the anterior intestine of C. variopedatus was investigated.
1996 Human Movement Sci. 15 789 The example used is rock climbing, where the subject's motricity is highly constrained by the natural environment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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