Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A neurone having a motor function.

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Examples

  • The effect on the individual motor unit appears then to run its course thus: if we start to trace the cycle with the moment when c.e. and c.i. are so equal as to cancel out, the state of the motoneurone is a zero state, for which the term "rest", although often applied to it, is perhaps better avoided.

    Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • "central excitations"; both exhibit various degrees of intensity in respect to the individual motoneurone.

    Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture 1965

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