Sentence examples for mechanical reflex from inspiring English sources

The Cartesians had a response: any such human reaction was itself just a mechanical reflex.

Given the Aristotelian division between instinct and reason and the Cartesian distinction between mechanical reflex and rational thought, it's tempting to map the one distinction onto the other.

Mechanical reflex changes were analyzed within a 140 220 ms window post stimulus [ 4, 19].

This is the same description, covering exactly the same behavior, only the first account puts the act in terms of mechanical reflexes and the other in terms of desires and hopes and affections.

They include the kind of admission (programmed or no), the diagnosis classified in high and low-risk, photomotor reflex, mechanical ventilation, blood pressure, base deficit and FiO2/PaO2 [ 12].

The muscle activities before the stretch clearly influenced the stretch-reflex mechanical response.

This study was designed to examine the effects of varying types of background muscle activity on the stretch-reflex mechanical response.

In conclusion, a stretch after an isometric contraction evoked a larger stretch-reflex mechanical response more efficiently than that after phasic contractions when a given effort was being maintained.

Although this study reported the mechanical responses to H reflex stimulation but not the reflex amplitude, the data still suggest that under certain conditions EST could produce adaptations in spinal excitability.

The larynx is the most sensitive site for elicitation of the cough reflex by mechanical stimulation, followed by tracheal bifurcation and the lower half of the trachea, in that order [ 57].

It takes attractions of a more mechanical nature — the catlike reflexes of a rear-engine Porsche, the distinctive howl of a Ferrari V-12 or the turbine smoothness of a Mazda rotary — to persuade these shoppers to open wallets.