Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Designating the muscles, and the nerves innervating them, which are attached to the hair-follicles: their contraction causes the condition called ‘goose-flesh.’
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to the goose flesh reflex.
Etymologies
- pilo- + motor (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The pilomotor fibers to the hairs and the motor fibers to the sweat glands apparently have a distribution similar to that of the vasoconstrictors of the skin.”
“Among other delights, there's a switch that retreats into its enclosure when your finger approaches, a switch that extrudes a stream of snotty goo when pressed (and retracts it when released), and (my personal favorite) a hairy switch with a pilomotor reflex that makes the hairs stand up when you try to touch it.”
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Adjectival Arcana
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hernesheir Without pilomotor muscles and nerves, there would be neither goose-flesh, nor goosebumps, nor nary a goose pimple. Jun 23, 2011