neuromotoradj.

1914 R. G. Sharp in Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 13 83 We now come to the description of what is believed to be the most interesting structure in the anatomy of this organism [sc. the protozoan Diplodinium ecaudatum]... The possibility of this structure functioning..as a neuromotor apparatus is suggested and..the designation neuromotor apparatus will be used, and its constituent parts will be described as a motorium or motor mass.

1940 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. iii. 169 It is probable that at least some of the fibrils of the neuromotor system are conductile and serve to coordinate ciliary activities..; but others are presumably of a supporting nature.

1959 W. Andrew Textbk. Compar. Histol. xiv. 539 The neuromotor system of Stylonichia appears to be very similar to that of Oxytricha... Some authors have ascribed a neuromotor function to certain fibrils connected to the basal granules of flagellates.

1966 New Scientist 3 Nov. 242/1 These neuromotor fibres have since been generally accepted as indicating the presence of an elementary intracellular ‘nervous system’.

1975 Science 892/2 The neuroid theory as adapted for protozoa envisaged the rootlet fiber system connecting the basal bodies of adjacent cilia as a neuromotor system, transmitting regulatory impulses from an undetermined control center.

1917 Science 30 Mar. 318/2 The question of the physiological regeneration of motor nerves when directly implanted into paralyzed muscles, and the possibility of the reestablishment of normal neuro-motor connections.

1938 Jrnl. Philos. 35 20 Memory..is the mastery and acquisition of verbal, cortical, or, in general, neuromotor or behavioral tools for coping with situations.

1966 Amer. Speech 41 226 Speech production by control of vocal tract configuration changes treats..phonemic distinction in terms of neuromotor commands.

1971 Language 47 51 We have now reached the stage where automatic phonetic and phonological rules take over, converting the sequences of segments into actual neuro-motor commands to the muscles in the articulation of the utterance.

1998 Psychophysiology 35 431 The study of motor slowness based on observational methods has limitations. Whether motor retardation has a psychomotor or neuromotor basis is unclear because psychiatric and motor symptoms overlap.