- motofacient
- Causing motion; denoting the second phase of muscular activity in which actual movement is produced. [L. motus, motion, + facio, to make]
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mo·to·fa·cient (mo″to-faґshənt) producing motion; a term applied to that phase of muscular activity by which the muscle produces actual motion, in contradistinction to the nonmotofacient phase in which the muscle is contracting without producing motion.
Medical dictionary. 2011.