[
US
/ˈɹifɫɛks/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
without volition or conscious control
a reflex knee jerk
sneezing is reflexive
the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light
NOUN
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
How To Use reflex In A Sentence
- I would expect the government to fight a lawsuit trying to prevent something like this, just as I would expect a leg to bounce up when its patellar reflex is hit with a tendon hammer. Matt Kane: The Obama Administration's Desire to Keep Citizens in the Dark is Inexcusable
- Later it becomes a reflex action in response to the baby's cry or just by thinking about the baby or feeding.
- Yes, some teachers and parents reflexively hand out the equivalent of a doggie biscuit every few minutes, the result being that kids habituate to it and it has no impact. Alfie Kohn: Criticizing (Common Criticisms of) Praise
- It's similar to reflexology and acupuncture, but on the ear. Times, Sunday Times
- Learning Although some of our behaviour is based on reflex and instinctive reactions, most of our behaviour is learned. Personnel Management: A New Approach
- When such reflexes persist past this age, it may signal the existence of some kind of neurological problem. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
- P. testa ovata, rimata, ferruginea; spira mediocri, apice eroso; anfractibus tribus, convexis, simplicibus, transversim crebre crenato-striatis; apertura ovata, intus purpurascente; labio tenui, late reflexo; labro acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
- Almost out of reflex she glanced up at the hospital, wondering if it was possible that was where the mysterious looker stood, watching her movements.
- Small as are the capitula of this flower, its seeds or achenia are armed with awns having reflexed hooks scarcely visible to the naked eye; it is these that are found so troublesome among the wool. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
