Sentence examples for accommodation reflex from inspiring English sources

Campbell (1954) concluded that the photoreceptors involved in the accommodation reflex are the foveal cones and that in the absence of a foveal stimulus the accommodative reflex is not fully elicited.

Considering stereoacuity was measured immediately after the participants received their reading glasses, relaxation of the accommodation reflex with the addition of plus lenses may be a possible cause for the decline in measured stereoacuity in a small subset of patient with underlying hyperopia.

Reflex accommodation is restricted to step sizes of less than 1.5-2 D [ 1, 28].

However, in their experiment they stepped the target from the far point to 1.5 D and 2 D for each subject respectively, whereas we used a 0.5 D step either side of 2 D. In this experiment, one reason behind the small step size was that we wanted to restrict our study to investigating reflex accommodation, i.e. the component of the AR that is automatic and is not influenced by conscious control.

Accommodation is an involuntary reflex act, and the ciliary muscle belongs to the smooth involuntary class.

He thought this might be due to accommodation of the cough reflex by chronic disease, but I am not sure of this since many patients with chronic lung disease or with intubation go on coughing for years.

Several readings were taken for each infant to look for variability of retinoscopy reflex due to residual accommodation.

Eye examination included pupillary reflex to light and accommodation, visual acuity by Snellen chart, colour vision by Ishihara plates, visual fields by confrontation as well as direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy.

Optic fibres also participate in accommodation of the lens and in the pupillary light reflex.

The sphincter is innervated by parasympathetic fibres of the oculomotor nerve, with their cell bodies in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus, as are the nerve cells controlling accommodation; thus, the close association between the accommodation and pupillary reflexes is reflected in a close anatomical contiguity of their motor nerve cells.

Accommodation of the stomach wall is considered to be a vagally mediated reflex that causes the stomach wall to relax in response to a meal that has been consumed and acts as both a chemical and a mechanical stimulus.