Sentence examples for some reflex from inspiring English sources

However, if I kicked it too strongly, he could make some reflex save.

Many of these forms use some reflex of habēre 'to have' joined to an infinitive.

While the brain is normally in charge, there is some reflex (i.e., not brain-controlled) sexual response.

The pattern of outcomes is consistent, and the story it tells is of good intentions betrayed by some reflex or habit of mind that the decent juror does not recognize in himself.

The cancer had woven itself in between the healthy nerves of the brainstem – the lowest part of the brain, which connects the brain to the spinal cord and is involved in basic functions such as breathing, heartbeat and blood pressure and some reflex actions like swallowing.

Intended to challenge stereotypes about disability, the Paralympics may also be altering some reflex prejudices about Channel 4. When the broadcaster dropped Big Brother two years ago, one of the reasons was clearly a concern that a network launched in 1982 with a remit to lift British TV's intellectual and artistic ambitions had become associated with aiming low.

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

As her mother told a reporter in 1963, the girl "had lost all spirit: it was almost as if life were gone and just some reflexes were left".

Patients in vegetative states may have open eyes, periods of waking and sleeping and some reflexes, like gagging, jerking a limb away from pain or reacting to light or noise.

Some reflexes involving the limbs or digits vanish after four months of age; one example is the Babinski reflex, in which the infant bends his big toe upward and spreads his small toes when the outer edge of the sole of his foot is stroked.

Studies have shown that the technique may affect both central and autonomous nervous system, modulating some reflexes (Traube-Hering baro signal), and modifying brain cortex electrical activity through central sensitization in subjects with chronic low back pain.