| motor control | control of muscles |
dalmatian
coach dog
carriage dog | a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots, originated in Dalmatia |
| coach horse | strong draft horse for drawing coaches |
automobile horn
car horn
motor horn
horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
a bus
autobus
coach charabanc
double-decker
jitney
motorbus
motorcoach
omnibus
passenger vehicle | a vehicle carrying many passengers, used for public transport, he always rode the bus to work |
bus terminal
bus depot
bus station
coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
coach
four-in-hand
coach-and-four | a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver |
coach house
carriage house
remise | a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles |
diesel
diesel engine
diesel motor | an internalombustion engine that burns heavy oil |
| electric motor | a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work |
hackney
hackney carriage
hackney coach | a carriage for hire |
| 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 |
passenger car
coach carriage | a railcar where passengers ride |
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 |
slip coach
slip carriage | a railway car at the end of the train, it can be detached without stopping the train |
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 |
trolleybus
trolley coach
trackless trolley | a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires |
| 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 |
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 |
baseball coach
baseball manager | a coach of baseball players |
| basketball coach | a coach of basketball players |
| batting coach | (baseball) someone who teaches batters how to bat better |
coach
private instructor
tutor | a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) |
| coach manager handler | (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team |
| line coach | an assistant football coach in charge of the linemen |
| pitching coach | an assistant baseball coach in charge of pitchers |
| football coach | a coach of football players |
| hockey coach | a coach of hockey players |
labor coach
birthing coach
doula
monitrice | an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes |
| tennis coach | a coach of tennis players |
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 |