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reflex action

NOUN
  1. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus

How To Use reflex action In A Sentence

  • The prevailing opinion respecting the substances known as condiments is, that they possess essentially stimulating qualities, rendering them peculiarly fitted for inducing, by reflex action, the secretion of the alimentary juices. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884
  • I'm sorry I punched him, it was a reflex action/response.
  • The most masterfully executed, Reflex Action also has the largest cast and includes, among other things, a musical number and a chorus line.
  • And as I looked down at the fatigued carbon fibre and the twisted titanium, a tiny spring uncoiled itself with a metallic hiss and one of the Locum's knees jerked, the gartered leg extending itself towards me in one final reflex action.
  • In a reflex action the body cuts the supply of blood to the arms and legs preventing swimming, and people then sink and drown.
  • Even the tears that fell were automatic, more a reflex action than reflection of any real emotion.
  • If you allowed that it went off by reflex action, you would never succeed.
  • It appears to be due to the fact that motor impulse is excited by perceptions without the necessary concurrence of the volition of the individual to cause the discharge, and are analogous to epileptiform paroxysms due to reflex action. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
  • A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
  • I'm sorry I punched him, it was a reflex action/response.
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