| BVMGT | Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test |
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| BVMOT | Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test |
| CMAP | compound muscle (or motor) action potential |
| CML | carboxymethyl lysine; cell-mediated lymphocytotoxicity; cell-mediated lympholysis; central motor lat... |
| CMSS | circulation, motor ability, sensation, and swelling; Council of Medical Specialty Societies |
| ocular motor apraxia | A congenital inability to initiate horizontal saccades. Children with this condition often use head thrusts to move their eyes to the left and right. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| off-road motor vehicles | Motorised, recreational vehicles used on non-public roads. They include all-terrain vehicles, dirt-bikes, minibikes, motorbikes, trailbikes, and snowmobiles. Excludes motorcycles, which are considered public road vehicles. (12 Dec 1998) |
| evoked potentials, motor | The electrical response evoked in a muscle or motor nerve by electrical or magnetic stimulation. Common methods of stimulation are by transcranial electrical and transcranial magnetic stimulation. It is often used for monitoring during neurosurgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
| extrapyramidal motor system | Literally: all of the brain structures affecting bodily (somatic) movement, excluding the motor neurons, the motor cortex, and the pyramidal (corticobulbar and corticospinal) tract. Despite its very wide literal connotation, the term is commonly used to denote in particular the striate body (basal ganglia), its associated structures (substantia nigra; subthalamic nucleus), and its descending connections with the midbrain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| extrapyramidal motor system disease | A general term for a number of disorders caused by abnormalities of the basal ganglia or certain brain stem or thalamic nuclei; characterised by motor deficits, loss of postural reflexes, bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity, and various involuntary movements. Synonym: extrapyramidal motor system disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| facial motor nucleus | A group of motor neurons located in the ventrolateral region of the lower pontine tegmentum and innervating the facial muscles, the stapedius muscle in the middle ear, the posterior limb of the musculus digastricus, and the stylohyoid muscle. Synonym: nucleus nervi facialis, facial motor nucleus, motor nucleus of facial nerve, nucleus facialis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| focal motor seizure | A simple partial seizure with localised motor activity. (05 Mar 2000) |