motor response
Body's physical reply
Motor response is the body's physical reaction to a stimulus, controlled by the nervous system.
A doctor tapping your knee triggers a motor response—the leg kicks.
In medical assessment, motor response measures how well a patient moves on command or reacts to pain: The patient showed no motor response to verbal instructions.
The term appears frequently in neurology and emergency medicine to evaluate brain function.
- reflexInvoluntary stimulus response
- knee jerkInvoluntary leg response
- reactionResponse to stimulus
- fight or flightThreat-triggered physiological state
- twitchInvoluntary muscular jerk
movement · muscle · muscle memory · stimulus · flinch · jerk · voluntary · involuntary · coordination · nerve · nervous system · spinal · spinal cord · withdrawal · grasp · pupil · eye opening · startle
motor responsesensory input
Information received through senses
sensory perception · sensory processing · sensation · sensory feedback
motor responseparalysis
Loss of muscle function
immobility · stillness · inaction · catatonia · quiescence
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