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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the motive apparatus or motor mechanism of the body, consisting of the muscles as the active agents of locomotion, and of the bones as the passive fulcrums and levers by which muscular power is applied.
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This admirable locomotorium, especially its solid central axis, the vertebral column, is a special feature of the
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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