Sentence examples for reflex reflex from inspiring English sources

Therefore, muscle hypertonia in patients with UMNS can be divided into two components: hypertonia mediated by the stretch reflex (reflex muscle hypertonia), which corresponds to spasticity, and hypertonia due to muscle contracture, joint retraction, or nonreflex muscle overactivity (intrinsic or nonreflex muscle hypertonia).

The response isn't a reflex a reflex kicks in, boom, like that but it isn't exactly a rational decision, either.

"This boy had no cough reflex and no gag reflex and was fed via a nasogastric tube," he said.

The anatomical pathway of a reflex is called the reflex arc.

"This is a survival reflex, the same reflex as a bird flying away as a car approaches".

During fixations the eyes are stabilized against movements of the head and body by two reflexes, the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and the optokinetic reflex (OKR).

Although a reflex response is said to be rapid and immediate, some reflexes, called recruiting reflexes, can hardly be evoked by a single stimulus.

Researchers theorize that photic sneezing results from crossed nervous pathways for the light-response reflex and the sneezing reflex.

It is now widely used in single-lens reflex cameras where the reflex finder permits accurate continuous assessment of image coverage.

Reflex blinking may be caused by practically any peripheral stimulus, but the two functionally significant reflexes are (1) that resulting from stimulation of the endings of the fifth cranial nerve in the cornea, lid, or conjunctiva the sensory blink reflex, or corneal reflex and (2) that caused by bright light the optical blink reflex.

An elevator reflex and a searching reflex addressed unexpected obstacles and loss of support, respectively.