Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or concerned in locomotion; possessing the power of moving or of causing motion; locomotive.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
locomotion .
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Examples
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The animals are up to 4 cm long, vermiform worm-shaped, and covered by locomotory cilia.
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The animals are up to 4 cm long, vermiform worm-shaped, and covered by locomotory cilia.
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"We have evidence of an upward spiral of efficiency within the Cenozoic Mammals both for locomotory adaptations and for intelligence."
Evolution Toward What? Young, J.Z. 1980
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In fact, many subjects that exhibit no evidence of locomotory impediment while walking or trotting in a straight line on a smooth road surface, will manifest the characteristic form of lameness from ringbone when the aforementioned side to side movement is performed.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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A principle which is elemental in the diagnosis of locomotory impediment, is that lameness of the shoulder or hip is usually manifested by more or less difficulty in swinging the affected member.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Since in the archetype every vertebra has its appendage, more than two pairs of locomotory limbs might have been developed.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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It is the manifestation of a structural or functional disorder of some part of the locomotory apparatus, characterized by a limping or halting gait.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Degenerative changes affecting nerves, as in other tissues, occur and more or less locomotory impediment will follow -- this depending upon the nerve or nerves affected and the nature of such involvement.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Ligaments which have to do with the locomotory apparatus are, for the most part, inelastic structures which are composed of white fibrous tissue and serve to join together the articular ends of bones; to bind down tendons; and to act as sheathes or grooves through which tendons pass, and as capsular membranes for retention of synovia in contact with articular surfaces of bones.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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This, of course, is restricted to articulations of the locomotory apparatus.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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