MOTOR NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motor nerve mean? 

• MOTOR NERVE (noun)
  The noun MOTOR NERVE has 1 sense:

1. a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands

  Familiarity information: MOTOR NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTOR NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

efferent; efferent nerve; motor nerve

Hypernyms ("motor nerve" is a kind of...):

nerve; nervus (any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body)

Meronyms (parts of "motor nerve"):

efferent neuron; motoneuron; motor nerve fiber; motor neuron (a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord)

efferent fiber; motor fiber (a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "motor nerve"):

anterior horn; anterior root; ventral horn; ventral root (one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers)

corticospinal tract; pyramidal motor system; pyramidal 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)

 Context examples 

Inflammation or degeneration of the peripheral motor nerves.

(Peripheral Motor Neuropathy, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by inflammation or degeneration of the peripheral motor nerves.

(Peripheral Motor Neuropathy, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

They mediate or transduce inputs from enteric motor nerves to the smooth muscle syncytium.

(Interstitial Cell of Cajal, NCI Thesaurus)

A hereditary disorder that affects the sensory and/or motor nerves or the autonomic nerves.

(Inherited Neuropathy, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon injection into the affected muscle, the heavy chain portion of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) binds to the cell membrane of the motor nerve and is internalized via endocytosis.

(botulinum toxin type A, NCI Thesaurus)

The main sensory nerve of the head and face, and the motor nerve of the muscles used in chewing.

(Fifth cranial nerve, NCI Dictionary)

An oval shaped area within the corticospinal tract that runs the entire length of the spinal cord just medial to the posterior spinocerebellar tract and contains motor nerve fibers originating from the opposite cerebral hemisphere.

(Crossed Pyramidal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)