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Exciting motion; - said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

Exciting motion; - said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

An epithet applied by Dr. Marshall Hall to a division of the nervous system-comprising the gray matter of the spinal marrow, with the afferent and efferent nerves connected with it ;-all of which are concerned in reflex actions; or those by which impressions are transmitted to a centre, and reflected so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition. They constitute the reflex system of nerves. See Nerves. The term excito-motion has also been employed to signify motion, no matter how excited, by the reflex nerves or by volition.-C. J. B. Williams.