Motorial

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

  Motor \Mo"tor\, Motory \Mo"to*ry\, Motorial \Mo*to"ri*al\, a.
     [L. motorius that has motion. See {Motor}, n.]
     Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion;
     -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve
     fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to
     muscles, thereby causing motion.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  motorial
       adj : of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away
             from the CNS; "efferent nerves and impulses" [syn: {efferent}]
             [ant: {afferent}]