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pilomotor /pi·lo·mo·tor/ (-mōt´er) pertaining to the arrector muscles, the contraction of which produces cutis anserina (goose flesh) and piloerection.

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adj.

Moving the hair. Used of the erector muscles of hairs in the skin and the postganglionic sympathetic nerve fibers that innervate them.

pilomotor [pi″lo-mo´ter]

causing movement of the hairs; pertaining to the arrector muscles, the contraction of which produces goose flesh (cutis anserina) and piloerection.

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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