Sentence examples for reflex itself from inspiring English sources

The areas from which a reflex can be sensitized closely match those from which the reflex itself can be evoked, provided that the spinal cord is intact.

The purpose of the startle reflex is to make us vigilant and, for moments (during enactment of the reflex itself and immediately afterwards), it makes us hypervigilant.

Antihistamines may also work on attenuating the cough reflex itself by an effect on the transient receptor potential ion channels [ 24].

In our study, the longer pharyngeal transit times could mean, at least in stable patients with COPD, that breathing/swallowing events would have more time to reach coordination before the swallowing reflex itself is triggered.

The glimmers of greatness, the ghost of reflex reasserting itself at bat or afield, were nice.

To block the light, a traditional SLR needs either a noisy focal-plane shutter, or the reflex mirror itself is made to do the job.

Using four-star jokes to illustrate his points, he argues that all humor hides an impulse of "aggression or apprehension," and that laughter is itself a reflex produced by "repressed sadism, sexual tumescence, unavowed fear, even boredom".

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

"We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex.

Familial corneal hypoesthesia manifests itself by decreased corneal sensation, reflex tearing, blinking, and foreign body sensation [ 30].

A mouse was considered to have lost the righting reflex if it was unable to turn itself prone onto all four of its feet in the ensuing two minutes.