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Motility   /moʊtˈɪlɪti/   Listen
Motility

noun
1.
Ability to move spontaneously and independently.
2.
A change of position that does not entail a change of location.  Synonyms: motion, move, movement.  "Movement is a sign of life" , "An impatient move of his hand" , "Gastrointestinal motility"





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"Motility" Quotes from Famous Books



... metazoa, or multicellular animals, specialization has occurred, some parts of the body becoming muscles with the primitive motility much developed, some parts becoming digestive organs, some parts conductors (the nerves) and some parts becoming specialized receptors or sense organs. A sense organ is a portion of the body that has very high ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth
... asleep. I shall not venture to state what change is produced in the Forec. system by the sleeping state, but there is no doubt that the psychological character of sleep is essentially due to the change of energy in this very system, which also dominates the approach to motility, which is paralyzed during sleep. In contradistinction to this, there seems to be nothing in the psychology of the dream to warrant the assumption that sleep produces any but secondary changes in the conditions of the Unc. system. Hence, ...
— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud
... to any one that in order to educate the voluntary motility of a child, it would be well first of all to keep it absolutely motionless, covering its limbs with cement (I will not say fracturing them!) until the muscles become atrophied and almost paralyzed; and then, when this result had been attained, that it ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori
... is deeply pitted, as is found to be the case in red algae. Reproduction is chiefly effected by the vegetative method. Asexual reproductive cells are not infrequent, but sexual reproduction even in its initial stages is unknown. Nor is motility by means of cilia known in the group. In the unicellular forms, cell-division involves multiplication of the plant. In all the multicellular plants of this group which have been adequately investigated, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... light it can remain no longer surprising that we actually find motility and sensibility so ...
— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler


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