Sentence examples for knee jerk reflex from inspiring English sources

It was shown during the 19th century that individuals executed on the guillotine might retain the knee jerk reflex for up to 20 minutes after decapitation.

It's a knee jerk reflex in people's vocabularies.

Clinical assessment that includes a test of the knee jerk reflex is fine.

Bringing this full circle, then, from reflex hammers in medical context to metonyms in the context of popular understanding, I write to offer a precaution: beware your doctor's knee jerk reflex.

The knee jerk reflex is usually reduced or absent on the affected side with preservation of ankle jerk unless affected by distal polyneuropathy.

If we use this drug as a knee jerk reflex in every patient that meets rather liberal inclusion criteria then we have a real chance of breaking the bank, and thus crowding out other treatments that hospitals will no longer be able to afford.

For starters, we must address the knee jerk layoff reflex.

Knee-jerk reflex and motor-neuron connection.

I'm not going to give a knee-jerk reflex reaction and say no way.

Among some politicians and newspaper writers, diplo-bashing is almost a knee-jerk reflex.

But proscription must always be a last resort, never a knee-jerk reflex.