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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.