| assisted suicide | suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible |
| physician-assisted suicide | assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician |
laser-assisted subepithelial keratomileusis
LASEK | a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea |
laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis
LASIK | a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea |
| 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 |
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 |
power steering
power-assisted steering | automotive steering where engineer power amplifies the torque applied to the steering wheel |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
assisted
aided | having help, often used as a combining form |
| motor-assisted | relying on an engine for propulsion in addition to muscle power, a motor-assisted bicycle |
| power-assisted | supplementing or replacing manual effort, power-assisted steering |