The phrase "absent reflexes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or physiological contexts to describe a lack of reflex responses in a patient or subject.
Example: "The neurologist noted the patient's absent reflexes during the examination, indicating a possible neurological issue."
Alternatives: "lack of reflexes" or "reflexes not present".
None of the patients with absent signs of life, defined as full cardiopulmonary arrest with absent reflexes (n = 215), on initial assessment by paramedics in the field, survived.
Most patients had an ascending pattern of weakness and almost all patients had lower limb weakness and reduced or absent reflexes.
Diagnosis is frequently known from genetic testing of the autosomal-dominant characteristic clinical history of distal weakness and absent reflexes beginning in the second decade.
Spinal cord lesions often manifest with a variety of symptoms, such as leg weakness, progressive paraparesis with spasticity, absent reflexes, ataxia, incontinence, and paresthesias [13].
Guillain Barré Syndrome is an acute monophasic post-infectious immune-mediated peripheral neuropathy with sensory disturbances, motor weakness, and diminished or absent reflexes with or without cranial nerve affection.
The limbs were hypotonic with absent reflexes, and muscle tenderness was present.
Neurological examination revealed minimally reactive pupils and otherwise absent brainstem reflexes.
Clinical finings included: brainstem death testing (2 (4.7%)), absent pupillary reflexes (22 (51.2%)), status epilepticus (16 (37.2%)).
However, there have been reports that patients in nontraumatic coma with absent pupillary reflexes still achieved good outcomes [42].
It is also associated with the muscle paralysis, reduced muscle tone and absent tendon reflexes below the level of injury [37, 38].
Some patients, however, will evolve to brain death (i.e., irreversible coma with absent brainstem reflexes) and organ donation should be discussed [138].
