suction curettage vacuum aspiration | a method of induced abortion, prior to the th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix |
motor control | control of muscles |
air pump vacuum pump | a pump that moves air in or out of something |
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 |
diesel diesel engine diesel motor | an internalombustion engine that burns heavy oil |
dust bag vacuum bag | a bag into which dirt is sucked by a vacuum cleaner |
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 |
thermobaric bomb fuel-air bomb vacuum bomb volume-detonation bomb aerosol bomb | a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive, a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb |
tube vacuum tube thermionic vacuum tube thermionic tube electron tube thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
vacuum vacuum cleaner | an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction |
vacuum chamber | a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed |
vacuum flask vacuum bottle | flask with double walls separated by vacuum, used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures |
vacuum gauge vacuum gage | a gauge for indicating negative atmospheric pressure |
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 |
motor pool | a fleet of military vehicles controlled by a single agency and available for use as needed |
vacuum vacuity | a region that is devoid of matter |
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 |
motor | a nonspecific agent that imparts motion, happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action |
void vacancy emptiness vacuum | an empty area or space, the huge desert voids, the emptiness of outer space, without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum |
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 |
vacuum vacuity | the absence of matter |
motor oil | oil used to lubricate the moving parts of a motor |
vacuum vacuum-clean hoover | clean with a vacuum cleaner, vacuum the carpets |
drive motor | travel or be transported in a vehicle, We drove to the university every morning, They motored to London for the theater |
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 |