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- adverb biology In terms of the
motor faculties.
Etymologies
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motoric + -ally
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Examples
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The patient appearing motorically “stuck” in an indecisive, hesitant movement, which results from examiner verbally contradicting his own strong nonverbal signal, such as offering his hand as if to shake hands, while stating, “Don’t shake my hand, I don’t want you to shake it.”
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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