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Reflex action
(gcide) | Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of
reflectere: cf. F. r['e]flexe. See Reflect.]
1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive;
introspective.
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The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the
intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir
M. Hale.
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2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
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3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or
excitation without the necessary intervention of
consciousness.
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Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed
involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression
transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from
which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls
into action certain muscles, organs, or cells.
Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See
Exito-motory.
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reflex action
(wn) | reflex action
n 1: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
[syn: reflex, reflex response, reflex action,
instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex,
unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction] |
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