Sentence examples for reflex movements from inspiring English sources

These reflex movements are called nystagmus.

It is now known that such purely spinal reflex movements may occur below a dead brain.

Even the starts and kicks felt by a pregnant woman, he says, are reflex movements that go on in a fetus's sleep.

Every deviation means an equilibrium disturbance and evokes compensatory reflex movements, not only a deviation from the usual position as in most laboratory experiments.

The pain appears to be associated with reflex movements of the iris and reflex dilation of the blood vessels of the conjunctiva.

Stereotyped response in animals may be separated into the following four categories: unorganized or poorly organized response, reflex movements of a particular part of an organism, reflex-like activity of an entire organism, and instinct.

There are four main types of eye movement: saccades, reflex stabilizing movements, pursuit movements, and vergence movements.

When the doctor hammered under Aura's knees, there was a tiny reflex movement.

(Cole-Adams attends an operation with Russell, during which he again employs his "isolated forearm technique"; this time, when the patient grips his fingers, he deems it a meaningless "reflex movement").

Deeper levels of unconsciousness pass through light coma, in which strong stimulation produces only a clumsy motor response, to deep coma, in which there is only a reflex movement or no response at all.

When a part of the periphery of the visual field is excited, a reflex movement of the head and eyes focuses the light rays upon that part of the fovea.