movement

(mooVment) [L. movere, to move.] 1 The act of changing position, of pa ing from one place to another, a. discharge of feces from the rectum, ac'tive m., effected by the organism Itself unaided by external Influences. ame'boid m., the m. characteristic of leucocytes and unicellular organisms; see streaming m. a is'tive m., in ma age, a m. which the partially paralyzed muscle of the patient would be unable to perform unaided but which is effected with the graduated a istance of the operator. as so'ciated m., Involuntary m. in a limb corresponding to one voluntarily executed In Its fellow. Brown'ian m., Bruno'nian m., rapid oscillation of chore'ic m., an Involuntary spasmodic twitching or jerking In groups of muscles not a ociated In