(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
(n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
(n.) A puppet show or puppet.
(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
(v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
(v. t.) To propose; to move.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(6) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(7) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(8) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
(9) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(10) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
(11) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(12) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
(13) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
(14) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
(15) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(16) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
(17) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(18) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.
(19) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
(20) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
Pendular
Definition:
(a.) Pendulous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subcortical OKN increased markedly when the slow phase of OHN and the compensatory eye movement resulting from the pendular rotation were in the same direction.
(2) It is a pendular nystagmus with two distinct components: a conjugate torsional component and a disjunctive vertical component.
(4) Its effects on the vestibulo-ocular system were determined by electronystagmography performed before and immediately after injecting lidocaine: smooth pendular stimulus tracking was unaffected; spontaneous and positional nystagmus tended to be suppressed; directional preponderance was reduced or reversed; and the difference between the nystagmus responses in the two directions during the pendular rotation chair test was also reduced or reversed.
(5) It could be shown that the compensation of the pendular chair by the means of the steering wheel was symmetric in healthy persons in spite of the presence of spontaneous nystagmus.
(6) The importance of finding this combination of elliptical pendular and upbeat nystagmus is that it is not described in any other childhood neurodegenerative states and, in combination with supportive clinical history and magnetic resonance imaging, may be so characteristic of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease that a strong presumptive diagnosis can be made.
(7) It is difficult to distinguish visually from either pendular or jerk nystagmus without eye movement recordings.
(8) Pendular nystagmus with a duration of several seconds and amplitude of 5 to 15 degrees appeared when she changed her fixation or the point of fixation disappeared.
(9) The inhibitory effect of calcium antagonists such as nifedipine and verapamil on the pendular movements of the rabbit isolated ileum was investigated.
(10) Pendular nystagmus occurring during binocualr fixation and pursuit of near objects is true convergence-evoked nystagmus.
(11) The dissociated, pendular nystagmus consists of high-frequency oscillations that may be disconjugate, conjugate, or purely uniocular.
(12) A 14-year-old boy with congenital seesaw and horizontal pendular nystagmus associated with decreased visual acuity, high myopia, esotropia, and normal peripheral visual fields is reported.
(13) We have investigated the effect of high doses of the anticholinergic drug trihexyphenidyl in four patients with palatal myoclonus and in four patients with acquired pendular nystagmus.
(14) There was pendular nystagmus with a normal caloric response.
(15) Unlike most forms of classic oculocutaneous albinism, however, there was good visual acuity and no pendular nystagmus.
(16) The "petite écuriture" has an average amplitude of 3.5 degrees during the high pendular acceleration (15-18 degrees sec2).
(17) Damped pendular rotation nystagmus was studied in squirrel monkeys before and after otolith end organ ablation (two-stage operations).
(18) From 1961 to 1970 82 patients with recurrent carcinoma of the uterine cervix were treated by Co60 biaxial pendular rotation therapy.
(19) In this paper we show the effect of gentamicin upon the VOR and ViVOR gain and phase in pendular and impulse rotatory tests.
(20) These movements of the weaker eyes were clinically observed by Ohm (1958) and were termed pendular flutter to distinguish them from nystagmus.