motorial

9.9

To send signals from the brain and spinal cord to muscles to make them move

adjective
/məˈtɔːriəl/

Specialized

: motora

The motorial nerves transmit signals to your muscles, allowing you to move your limbs.

Examples

Damage to the motorial pathways can lead to weakness or loss of movement in affected muscles.
Researchers studied how motorial impulses affect voluntary muscle contractions.
The motorial nerves are essential for movement.
Injuries to the motorial pathways can lead to paralysis.
The motorial nerves transmit signals to your muscles, allowing you to move your limbs.
Damage to the motorial pathways can lead to weakness or loss of movement in affected muscles.
Injuries to the motorial pathways can lead to paralysis.

Synonyms

efferent

vsmotorial

Specialized

1 9.9

Carrying signals away from the brain and spinal cord

is specifically about signals leaving the central nervous system especially to muscles

neuromotor

vsmotorial

Specialized

8.4

About the nerves that control muscle movement

focuses on outgoing nerve signals from the central nervous system to muscles

motoric

vsmotorial

Specialized

7.9

Relating to body movement and muscle actions controlled by nerves

highlights outgoing signals specifically, not general muscular control

motor

vsmotorial

Specialized

3.7

Relating to movement and the nerves or muscles that control it

narrows this to signals leaving the central nervous system to muscles

Surface Forms

motorial positive

Morphology

motorial = motor (transparent) = motor + ial

Meaning is directly derived from 'motor' (relating to movement) with a standard adjective-forming suffix '-ial', so learners who know 'motor' can infer 'motorial'.

Etymology

Motorial comes from the Latin root motor, which means 'mover' and is the same root as the English word motor and the verb move. So motorial describes nerves or signals that 'make things move' by sending instructions from the brain and spinal cord to muscles.