(n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.
(n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.
(n.) Alt. of Motorial
Example Sentences:
(1) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(2) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
(3) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(4) The earliest degenerative changes were seen in sensory and motor terminals at 20-24 h after the lesion.
(5) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(6) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(7) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
(8) A recent report suggested that neurons in the prefrontal, anterior cingulate, and primary motor cortex of the brains of schizophrenic subjects may be less dense than those in the brains of nonschizophrenic subjects.
(9) We suggest that neuronal PACAP may serve to modulate motor activity and secretion in the lower esophageal sphincter region.
(10) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(11) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(12) The corticotectal cells in the motor cortex differed from those in the premotor cortex in their size distribution; the former being small, the latter both small and large.
(13) Since the gastric motor pattern consisted of two major subpatterns, digestive and interdigestive motor activity, motilin was tested for its motor stimulating activity in both states.
(14) Sensory loss, motor weakness, paraesthesia and a new pain were found as complications in 12, 7, 4 and 6 patients, respectively.
(15) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(16) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
(17) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(18) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
(19) Increased velocity of motor conduction in at least one nerve related directly proportionally to the Cs concentration of the serum was demonstrated in 56-70% of the patients after one dialysis.
(20) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
Stepper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.
Example Sentences:
(1) A set of Microsoft BASIC and Turbo PASCAL programs that interfaces a microprocessor-controlled stepper motor microscope stage (MDACE 1000) to an IBM PC or PC-AT or compatible microcomputer via a serial interface (RS-232) is described.
(2) "The trapped second-steppers, who are already in a property but want to move up the ladder to a larger one, are finding that falling property values mean they don't have substantial equity to call upon," he said.
(3) Salient features of the hardware are stepper motor-controlled movement of the stage and fine adjustment of an inverted microscope, a high-quality 16-mm cine camera with light meter and controls, and a miniature incubator in which cells may be grown under defined conditions directly on the microscope stage.
(4) When places come along that are cheaper it’s a bit of a bunfight.” First-time buyers, investors and second-steppers – people trying to move up the property ladder – are all vying for properties and supply is short.
(5) An IBM-type microcomputer is used to control a stepper motor driving a ball screw with a positional accuracy of about 1 micron.
(6) The difficulties faced by aspiring second-steppers are having a considerable knock-on impact for potential first-time buyers due to the resulting shortage of properties available on the market with housing chains proving hard to establish."
(7) Credlin in very short order became the witch in the office, Abbott’s lucky charm, the enforcer, the over-stepper, the punisher, the keeper of the diary and the door.
(8) This paper describes a simple, inexpensive apparatus for performing these experiments; it is based on a ball screw driven by a microcomputer controlled stepper motor.
(9) On Tuesday White gave an unusual first taste of the music to come: High Ball Stepper, released as a YouTube video , is a four-minute instrumental track with growling and reversed guitars, chewy distortion, and nary a single lyric.
(10) The mechanical elements and the electronic control system from a stepper motor-driven microelectrode positioner is described.
(11) Click here to watch High Ball Stepper Unlike Blunderbuss, which White issued as several special packages, Lazaretto will get only one limited-edition treatment.
(12) A microprocessor-controlled stepper motor modulates the amount of beam cutoff by regulating the movement of the shutter from the foot end of the film.
(13) A motor stepper-driven simulator (jaw replicator) was connected to investigate the occlusion during the terminal masticatory movements.
(14) We have studied the effects of temporal bone on the ultrasound beam and sample volume characteristics of the EME Transcan 2 MHz transducer using a stepper motor, computer-controlled ultrasound plotting system.
(15) The apparatus is based on a ball screw driven by a microcomputer-controlled stepper motor capable of generating 100 Newtons of traction, the resulting force in the tissue is monitored in real-time acquisition by a load cell.
(16) Scanning across the cornea is achieved by a stepper motor coupled to the fine focus of the microscope.
(17) The rapid-mixing device is based on a syringe driven by a stepper motor and can inject up to 2 cm3 liquid in less than 100 ms.
(18) Meanwhile two Japanese companies – Nikon and Canon – share with Zeiss of Germany total dominance in cutting the giant lenses used in so-called steppers (the photo-optical devices that print lines on computer chips).
(19) A rolling diaphragm pump, driven through a slider-crank mechanism by a microprocessor-controlled stepper motor, generated characteristic arterial pulse waves at a rate of 75 cycles per minute.
(20) A new skin extensometer, constructed with digital stepper motors and controlled with a microcomputer, is described to measure these properties for both skin and its subcutaneous attachments.