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If the sensory nerve leading to any part be cut, all sensation in that spot will be lost, while motion will remain; if the motory nerve be cut, all motion will be destroyed, while sensation will exist as before.

Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

The motory nerves, as they descend from the brain, in the medulla oblongata, cross each other to the opposite side of the spinal cord.

Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

Each nerve arises by two roots; the anterior is the motory, and the posterior the sensory one.

Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

The injury to digestion during fever comprises not only the peptic functions, which manifest themselves clearly in a reduction of the excretion of hydrochloric acid, but all functions pertaining thereto, the motory as well as the resorptive.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

The nervous system of a fresh and highly-fed horse sends its order to the motory system so quickly, that no time is allowed for him to consider whether or not the danger is real.

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

The deputies of quickest motory reactions were on their feet in an instant, followed by dozens and dozens of others, all making for the doors.

The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

Our experience of the employment of electro-magnetism as a motory power is, however, too recent to enable us to foresee the ultimate results of contrivances to apply it; and, therefore, those who have devoted themselves to solve the problem of its application should not be discouraged, inasmuch as it would undoubtedly be a most important achievement to supersede the steam-engine, and thus escape the danger of railroads, even at double their expense.

Familiar Letters on Chemistry Justus Freiherr von Liebig 1838

But a motory force of a body in one direction, and an equal force of the same body in an opposite direction is not incompatible, and the result, namely, rest, is real and representable.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

The whole muscularity of these animals, is the organ of irritability; and the nerves themselves are probably feeders of the motory power.

Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

In insects we first find the distinct commencement of a separation between the muscular system, that is, organs of irritability, and the nervous system, that is, organs of sensibility; the former, however, maintaining a pre-eminence throughout, and the nerves themselves being probably subservient to the motory power.

Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803