bathmo-, bathm- +

(Greek: a step or degree; rank; by steps)

bathmophobia, bathomophobia

An overly intensive fear or hatred of walking.

bathmotropic

Influencing the excitability of muscle or nervous tissue.

Increased responsiveness is considered positively bathomotropic and decreased responsiveness is negative.

bathmotropism

An influence on the responsiveness of excitable tissue in a body.

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