motor control | control of muscles |
automobile horn car horn motor horn horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
camper camping bus motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
cascade liquefier | an apparatus used to liquefy air or oxygen etc. |
cascade transformer | a number of transformers in series, provides a high-voltage source |
diesel diesel engine diesel motor | an internalombustion engine that burns heavy oil |
electric motor | a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work |
motor | machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion |
motor hotel motor inn motor lodge tourist court court | a hotel for motorists, provides direct access from rooms to parking area |
motor scooter scooter | a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel |
motor vehicle automotive vehicle | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails |
outboard motor outboard | internalombustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat |
power mower motor mower | a lawn mower powered by a gasoline motor |
PT boat mosquito boat mosquito craft motor torpedo boat | a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat, P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat |
starter starter motor starting motor | an electric motor for starting an engine |
stepper stepping motor | a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps |
synchronous motor | electric motor in which the speed of rotation is proportional to the frequency of the A.C. power |
wiper motor | electric motor that moves the windshield wiper |
end-plate endplate motor end plate | the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle |
motor neuron efferent neuron motor nerve fiber motoneuron | a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord |
motor nerve efferent nerve efferent | a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands |
motor fiber efferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands |
motor area motor region motor cortex Rolando's area excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
pyramidal tract pyramidal motor system corticospinal tract | any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord |
motor memory muscle memory | your memory for motor skills |
shower cascade | a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower, a little shower of rose petals, a sudden cascade of sparks |
motor pool | a fleet of military vehicles controlled by a single agency and available for use as needed |
cascade | a succession of stages or operations or processes or units, progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring, separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes |
Detroit Motor City Motown | the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port, center of the United States automobile industry, located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor |
cascade | a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls |
Cascades Cascade Range Cascade Mountains | a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California, a part of the Coast Range |
motor | a nonspecific agent that imparts motion, happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action |
cascade everlasting Ozothamnus secundiflorus Helichrysum secundiflorum | shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays, flowers suitable for drying, sometimes placed in genus Helichrysum |
cascade penstemon Penstemon serrulatus | whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems, moist places from British Columbia to Oregon |
ataxia ataxy dyssynergia motor ataxia | inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements, unsteady movements and staggering gait |
motor aphasia Broca's aphasia ataxic aphasia expressive aphasia nonfluent aphasia | aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired |
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy | a form of neuropathy that can begin between childhood and young adulthood, characterized by weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hands and lower legs, progression is slow and individuals affected can have a normal life span, inheritance is X-linked recessive or X-linked dominant |
motor oil | oil used to lubricate the moving parts of a motor |
cascade | arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible |
drive motor | travel or be transported in a vehicle, We drove to the university every morning, They motored to London for the theater |
cascade cascade down | rush down in big quantities, like a cascade |
motive(a) motor | causing or able to cause motion, a motive force, motive power, motor energy |
centrifugal motor(a) | conveying information to the muscles from the CNS, motor nerves |
motor-assisted | relying on an engine for propulsion in addition to muscle power, a motor-assisted bicycle |