motor nerve

Questions about motor nerve

What does motor nerve mean?

motor nerve means "a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands".

What is another word for motor nerve?

Close synonyms include efferent nerve, efferent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is motor nerve a common word?

motor nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.