How To Use Reflex action In A Sentence
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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
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I'm sorry I punched him, it was a reflex action/response.
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The most masterfully executed, Reflex Action also has the largest cast and includes, among other things, a musical number and a chorus line.
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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.
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In a reflex action the body cuts the supply of blood to the arms and legs preventing swimming, and people then sink and drown.
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Even the tears that fell were automatic, more a reflex action than reflection of any real emotion.
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If you allowed that it went off by reflex action, you would never succeed.
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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
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A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
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I'm sorry I punched him, it was a reflex action/response.
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A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
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Among the other subjects to which Müller devoted careful and successful research may be mentioned: reflex action, the chemical composition of blood plasma, the presence of chondrin in cartilage, hermaphroditism in human beings, the minute structure and origin of glands in man and animals, the lymph hearts of amphibia, and those ducts of the preliminary kidney in the foetus which have since been called by his name.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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His quick and strong wrists, his reflex action, and keen eyesight all figured in his ability to succeed as a hitter.
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The spinal cord conducts nerve impulses to and from the brain and is also involved in reflex actions.
Biology Basic Facts
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_Simple_ reflex action, or instinct, answers to the animal faculties, such as acquisitiveness, secretiveness, selfishness, reproductiveness, etc., and accomplishes two important purposes; self-preservation and the reproduction of the specie.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Later it becomes a reflex action in response to the baby's cry or just by thinking about the baby or feeding.
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A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
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At this time the condition of the patient was as follows: The face presented the appearance known as facies hippocratica: the eyeballs were prominent, the corneæ glassy, the pupils widely dilated, not acting to light, and there was no reflex action of the conjunctivæ; the lips were livid, the tongue tumefied, but pallid, the skin ashy pale, the cutaneous tissues apparently devoid of elasticity.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
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If the arm or the leg of a sleeper be stroked or touched, or a cold breath of air blows thereon, it will be withdrawn, and such withdrawal is what we call a reflex action.
Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
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This mechanism is an example of a reflex action.
Biology Basic Facts
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And here are the steps of its ascent from the mud to man: simple reflex action, compound reflex action, memory, habit, rudimentary reason, and abstract reason.
The Other Animals
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KRACK: Yes, but really we're trying to induce a reflex action, micratia cardia (ph), slowing of the heart, which is the oxygen - conserving mechanism.
CNN Transcript May 9, 2006
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This mechanism is an example of a reflex action.
Biology Basic Facts
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I'm sorry I punched him, it was a reflex action/response.
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A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
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He lays it through her and in her, though knowing no more what he is doing than we know when we digest, but still doing it as by what we call a reflex action.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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The spinal cord conducts nerve impulses to and from the brain and is also involved in reflex actions.
Biology Basic Facts
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These are known as _reflex action, voluntary action_, and
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
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His reflex action was to bend and swing round violently, and I was thrown to the ground.
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Almost as a reflex action, I grab my pen as the phone rings.
