motor neuron
motor neuron
Definition
motor neuron
noun
a type of neuron that carries nerve impulses that activate a muscle, gland, etc.
motor neuron
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- survive: This explanation assumes that after recovery from polio the surviving giant motor neurons must labor more than normal neurons just to maintain daily activities.
- become: These become the parent motor neurons for those muscle fibers that were orphaned initially.
Adjective modifier
- spinal: Changes in spinal cord motor neurons of possible relevance to the late effects of poliomyelitis.
- single: A single motor neuron that initially stimulated 1,000 muscle cells might eventually innervate 5,000 to 10,000 cells, creating a giant motor unit.
- few: These vastly enlarged motor units make it possible for fewer motor neurons to do the work of many.
Modifies a noun
- disease: Clinical aspects and its relation to typical motor neuron disease.
- degeneration: Genetic characterization of the legs at odd angles angles locus, a new mutation causing motor neuron degeneration in a gene dose dependent manner.
- cell: The Roslin Institute argues that one such case is the study of motor neuron disease cells.
- death: If one can block the action of free radicals then you can prevent or slow down motor neuron cell death.
- lesion: CONCLUSION: These findings are consistent with a rearrangement in human motor pathways targeting muscles affected by a lower motor neuron lesion.
- body: Dendrites are small root-like branches that provide the input to motor neuron cell bodies and to the axons of sensory neurons.
Noun used with modifier
- cord: Changes in spinal cord motor neurons of possible relevance to the late effects of poliomyelitis.
- limb: The number of limb motor neurons in the human lumbosacral cord throughout life.
Preposition: in
- cord: The number of limb motor neurons in the human lumbosacral cord throughout life.
Preposition: of
- relevance: Changes in spinal cord motor neurons of possible relevance to the late effects of poliomyelitis.
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