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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Causing a retardation of motor activity.
  • noun An agent which retards motor activity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement.
  • noun medicine Any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centres.

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