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Noun: motor fiber
Usage: US (elsewhere: motor fibre)
  1. A nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands
    "Motor fibers in the spinal cord transmit signals for voluntary movement";
    - efferent fiber, motor fibre [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: motor fibers

Type of: nerve fiber [US], nerve fibre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: efferent, efferent nerve, motor nerve

Encyclopedia: Motor fiber