Word Meanings - LOCOMOTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion. Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy , a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• VOLUNTARY
  Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• ATAXIA; ATAXY
  1. Disorder; irregularity. Bp. Hall. Irregularity in disease, or in the functions. The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.
• DIFFICULTY
  difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SPINAL
  Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral. 2. Of or pertaining to a spine or spines. Spinal accessory nerves, the eleventh pair of cranial nerves in the higher vertebrates. They originate from
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• LOCOMOTOR
  Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion. Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy , a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.
• DISEASEDNESS
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
• VOLUNTARYISM
  The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.
• DISEASE
  1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak. 2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting
• MOVEMENT
  A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
• LOCOMOTION
  1. The act of moving from place to place. " Animal locomotion." Milton. 2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• ORDINATION
  The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders. 3. Disposition; arrangement; order. Angle of ordination , the angle between the axes of coördinates. (more info) 1. The act of ordaining,
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.
• INSUBORDINATION
  The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• INCOORDINATE; INCOOERDINATE
  Not coördinate.
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• MISORDINATION
  Wrong ordination.
• ORDINATOR
  One who ordains or establishes; a director. T. Adams.
• SUBORDINATE
  1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was