Excito-motory

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excito-motory \Ex*ci`to-mo"to*ry\, a. (Physiol.)
     Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous
     system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are
     transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as
     to produce muscular contraction without sensation or
     volition.


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