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Locomotor

Locomotor \Lo`co*mo"tor\, a. [See Locomotion.] Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.

Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in co["o]rdinating voluntary movements.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
locomotor

1822, from Latin loco "from a place" (ablative of locus "place") + motor.

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locomotor

a. Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion n. Something that is capable of locomotion

WordNet
locomotor

adj. of or relating to locomotion [syn: locomotive]

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Usage examples of "locomotor".

In the mean time he asked me all sorts of questions about myself and all my relatives, whether we had been subject to this and that malady, until I felt as if we must some of us have had more or less of them, and could not feel quite sure whether Elephantiasis and Beriberi and Progressive Locomotor Ataxy did not run in the family.

The row of oleander bushes in the back yard of the yellow house went raving mad, flowering so riotously that they might well have developed locomotor ataxia.

It had six tentacular limbs which served both as locomotor and manipulatory appendages and, like many immensely strong beings forced to live among entities many times weaker than itself, it was careful and gentle in its movements.

Or that Pishposh, the man-eating alligator, is down with locomotor ataxia.

Walker was lecturing on locomotor ataxia to a wardful of youngsters.

Jonas declares he once spoke of locomotor ataxia in hearing and she said she knew too well what that was.

The mark of the devil on a woman's breast is only a mole, the man who came back from the dead and stood at his wife's door dressed in the cerements of the grave was only suffering from locomotor ataxia, the bogeyman who gibbers and capers in the corner of a child's bedroom is only a heap of blankets.

His locomotors were not designed for such outer climbing and scrambling.