mo'tor

Updated: June 9, 2025

Muscles causing bones to bend are termed flex'ors; those causing them to straighten, ex ten'sors. Nerve. A fibre of nerve tissue, or a bundle of such fibres, connecting nerve ganglia with each other or with some terminal nerve organ. Nerves running inward toward the spinal cord and the brain are called sen'so ry nerves; those from the brain and spinal cord outward, mo'tor nerves. Nerv'ous system.

Woods Hutchinson - A Handbook of Health