plurisegmentaladj.

1898 C. S. Sherrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 151 It follows..that the reflex centrifugal discharge of the spinal cord is pluri-segmental.

1924 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 69 649 The data indicate for the frog a plurisegmental innervation such as Agduhr..has shown to exist in cats and rabbits.

1969 J. P. Swazey Reflexes & Motor Integration v. 95 It is the pluri-segmental character of the motor nucleus, as expressed by reciprocal innervation, which gives the limb its functional solidarity.

1996 Science 15 Nov. 1113/3 Motor neurons are arranged in discontinuous longitudinal columns that occupy different DV and mediolateral positions at different, plurisegmental levels of the neuraxis.

1960 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 23 598/1 His conclusions on the unisegmental structure of the Kabardian morpheme lead him to question the validity of comparisons of plurisegmental units with words in distantly or hypothetically related tongues.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 107 The most important features that must be treated as plurisegmental..are stress, pitch, and general voice quality.

1925 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 98 495 If one supposed..that all individual muscle fibres have two end-plates, the laws of probability would be defied should more than 50 per cent. be innervated plurisegmentally.

1960 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 115 47/2 The neurons..occur plurisegmentally.