pilomotor /pi·lo·mo·tor/ (-mōt´er) pertaining to the arrector muscles, the contraction of which produces cutis anserina (goose flesh) and piloerection.
pi·lo·mo·tor (p  l -m  tr)adj. Moving the hair. Used of the erector muscles of hairs in the skin and the postganglionic sympathetic nerve fibers that innervate them. |
pilomotor
causing movement of the hairs, piloerection; pertaining to the arrector muscles.
pilomotor nerves
the nerves supplying the arrector muscles of the hair.
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