Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) was once known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and causalgia [1].
It is well known that reflex muscle contraction is a defense mechanism to prevent or reduce the amount of damage caused by a given injury.
About 6% of those with epilepsy have seizures that are often triggered by specific events and are known as reflex seizures.
Ladybirds exude droplets of haemolymph containing deterrent alkaloids through their leg joints when threatened or attacked, a behaviour known as reflex bleeding [ 4].
Two types of CRPS can be distinguished: type 1, formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy or algodystrophy, which occurs without a definable nerve lesion and type 2, formerly called causalgia, in which a definable nerve lesion is present [ 2].
One of the roles of the cerebellum is to control a reflex known as the vestibulo-ocular reflex, which enables us to keep our gaze fixed on an object as we turn our heads.
Pregnant women may also lose the urge to defecate because of the pressure of the uterus on the lower bowel and inhibition of a reflex stimulus, known as the gastrocolic reflex, from the stomach to the rectum.
I was on my third in a row and I was tired – the sort of tired where your eyes feel hot and sunken, and blinking takes three to four seconds, and you never knew a reflex could be so torturous.
Her eyes were white, the result of a reflex known as Bell's phenomenon, in which the eyeball rolls back to protect the cornea.
