How To Use Reflex In A Sentence
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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
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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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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
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It's similar to reflexology and acupuncture, but on the ear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Learning Although some of our behaviour is based on reflex and instinctive reactions, most of our behaviour is learned.
Personnel Management: A New Approach
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When such reflexes persist past this age, it may signal the existence of some kind of neurological problem.
The Developing Child (7th edn.)
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Lai let her hand rest on his chest and almost out of reflex he let his hand rest on hers, gripping it lightly as he shifted and settled more relaxedly in her grasp.
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Sori borne along the longitudinal veins and the reflexed edges of the ultimate segments of pinnules.
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Almost as a reflex action, I grab my pen as the phone rings.
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Reflexologists say these areas are connected to the adrenals, pituitary glands and uterus, respectively.
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Last but not least, caffeinated coffee helps improve one's reflexes.
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The driver, taken by ambulance, arrived in the emergency room obtunded, diaphoretic, with his mouth clenched, and with a positive cough reflex.
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This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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Lucky for Gary, he's got quick reflexing and good hands.
Gary Vaynerchuk is One Crazy, Wine-Swilling Dude
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Yet Europe has surely done more in the past 18 months to bring its public-debt problems under control than has the U.S. It may never have done enough, but it has been more than was imaginable as recently as 2008, when the reflex reaction to the financial crisis was a nationally oriented sauve qui peut.
Europe Must Produce Fudge of Much Higher Quality
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In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification.
G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler
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It promotes reflexes, sharpens skills at the net and simply makes you a better, more aggressive player.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reflexology is based on the principle that specific areas on the feet correspond to different parts of the body.
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And for specialized care, they can turn not only to neurologists and cardiologists but to experts in reflexology (a healing system based on foot massage), rolfing (which stresses body alignment) and other unconventional practices.
Going Mainstream
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Apparently the pilot's reflexes left something to be desired and the hovercraft crashed side-on into a large rock, blossoming into a ball of flame.
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The argument is that without distinct individuals that are metaphysically prior to the relations, there is nothing to stand in the irreflexive relations that are supposed to confer individuality on the relata.
Structural Realism
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We retain reptilian reflexes deep in our minds (fight or flight) while the more complex structuring of knowledge (how to do statistics) is layered over those primitive networks.
Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives
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Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Reflexive and overdetermined, it is a conceit that fully reveals its rather heavy hand towards the end.
Times, Sunday Times
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I checked my reflexion in the mirror and smiled to myself.
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The rapid movement of an object towards the eye triggers the blink reflex.
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The intertextuality and self-reflexivity of literature is not, finally, a defining feature but a foregrounding of aspects of language use and questions about representation that may also be observed elsewhere.
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the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise
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This reflexive element in my research is of crucial importance and helps me understand the testimony of some of the people I interviewed.
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Assuming one of my compadres has slipped, I brace for the fall, a routine reflex; however, because I do not believe my anchors will hold, my heart plugs my throat and I wait to be plucked into eternity.
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One form of philosophical modernism is a radical self-reflexivity and self legislation that stands against heteronomy.
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This has the consequence that the readings dependent on the long-distance binding of the reflexives are incorrectly ruled out.
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Lynn sees reflexology as a complementary treatment, as opposed to alternative.
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Look at the eyes again, concentrating on the light reflex in the iris and pupil.
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Byrne does hew to the representationalist's line of supervenience (no phenomenal difference without an intentional difference), but if his argument does not rule out mental paint, an anti-representationalist may construct inversion cases such as that of Block's (1990) "Inverted Earth" (see Section 4.4 below), and argue that the paint is a nonfunctional intrinsic mental feature of the experience given in introspection, which is close enough to a "quale" in Block's special sense, even if the feature does happen to be reflexively represented by the experience itself.
Representational Theories of Consciousness
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Actually coughing is a healthy reflex that helps clear mucus or phlegm in the throat and chest.
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For me, it was a heart-stopping moment, and an interesting demonstration that my reflexes in these situations are to protect Rebecca at the possible expense of damage to myself.
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To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation.
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On the assumption that an exaggerated gastrocolic reflex is indeed the problem, you can address it in two ways.
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It has also been understood for some time that the functions of these and several other primary reflex centers are integrated in the mesencephalon, that is, the grey matter, grouped in several nuclei, which is located below the hemispheres of the cerebrum, in immediate proximity to the hypophysis, which exercises a regulating influence on a great many vegetative functions.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 - Presentation Speech
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The penis erects is activity of sex of a reflex, must issue the Later Zhou Dynasty of centre, spinal cord to surround nerval action ability to come true through pallium , cortex.
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But on reflexion neither of these would been the right way to proceed.
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It was in the town hall there two former colleagues alleged that he gave them foot massages to brush up on his reflexology, an alternative therapy.
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I jumped at least two feet in the air in a completely involuntary, reflexive response.
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His conception of power is reflexive and scants the complexity of New York's political culture.
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A puzzle that immediately arises is how this complex reflexive communicative intention is meant to be recognized by the recipient.
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This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm.
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If sophisticated reflexes can be mediated by the spinal cord, what is the purpose of the brain?
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The saltatory nature of this type of flight results in extreme linear and angular displacements of the bird's body; however, birds isolate their heads from these accelerations with cervical reflexes.
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Planet Olifani
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It is associated with impaired hearing on behavioural pure-tone audiometry, absent acoustic reflexes, and poor speech perception, particularly in noisy environments.
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But this business seemed to be defacing its own windows, in a reflexive act of social deviance.
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He gets most things right and sharpens his eyes and reflexes by playing table tennis.
The Sun
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo
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The result of the collaboration was a "patient" that is more realistic than other dummies down to a moving tongue and gag reflex.
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The startled barbarian grappled reflexively, neglecting the weapons that hung at his waist.
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It's been produced by Reflex Products, who also make Romio - a $40 USB-MIDI cable with the electronics encased in a kind of perspex ice cube...
Nice looking, cheap MIDI knob box
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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
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What he found was that every bird in a particular species has certain inflexible patterns of behavior, reflex responses to very specific stimuli.
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( "ci") are used for the reflexive pronouns of the first and second persons.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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A reflexologist can often tell what is wrong with his client by the condition of certain parts of the feet.
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Instead of teaching women to " push, " Ms. Mongan says, she teaches them to use the " natural expulsive reflex " and " birth breathing.
Expecting a Baby, But Not the Pain
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Sometimes, these beliefs are so quick and reflexive that they're automatic, but they still shape our behavior.
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You certainly don't need an understanding of ear reflexology to receive all the soothing, relaxing and well-being benefits.
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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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The trick is, of course, to distinguish between subjective criticism of US government policy and reflexive opposition to anything done by the US anywhere at any time.
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Some of this happens by dynamic airway closure and some by reflexly narrowing the glottis and using it to dynamically slow or control respiration.
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This was one of the most depressing moments of my life, not entirely for its present state but its reflexive backwardness.
WHITE LIES
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Attention must leave tennis, and had made an innate reflex nerve more agile.
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However, if we follow instead Hesychius' testimony, the irregular Celtic reflexes can be perfectly explained through borrowing from the implied Etruscan etymon *capra with its unaspirated k-.
Manly goats
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For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself.
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The women can choose from Swedish massage, reiki, therapeutic massage, aromatherapy, Indian head massage and reflexology.
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Anschauung [,] und dann zweitens die bloße Regel der Reflexion über jene Anschauung auf einen ganz andern Gegenstand, von dem der erstere nur das
Seeing Is Reading
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We then added a subhypnotic dose of barbital and found that the combined action of this drug and nitrous oxide could be antagonized, and the increase in partial pressure of nitrous oxide needed to inhibit the righting reflex could be used as a measure of pentylenetetrazol action.
Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
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To investigate Penthorum Chinese Pursh for dispelling effects of alcohol in mice, the disappearing status of righting reflex was recorded and the concentration of ethanol in blood was measured.
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She did some in-office tests and remarked that I don't have the reflexes of a hyperthyroid - no signs at all of muscular weakness.
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You know what the problem, you little anonymous pansy, is with reflexively jumping to defend anyone accused of racism?
Matthew Yglesias » Charles Murray Sees Nonwhite People
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The first was an unbelievable effort from the edge of the penalty area which required lightning reflexes and incredible skill.
The Sun
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In a wider sense, the phrase refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics; such verbs are also referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in grammars of the Romance languages.
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Energy explodes from torsos, courses through limbs, and shoots out fingers splayed, reflexively, like a child's.
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If human conciousness is just a meat mechanism, and conciousness is an illusion, would we not all be superior, have quicker reflexes, do our work more efficiently, if we had no consciousness?
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1)
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Such services as Indian head massages, detox aromatic massages, reflexology and Reiki are on offer.
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This power surged from his heart and dispersed to every cell in his body: it fortified him by strengthening his stamina, and increasing his reflexes.
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These are known as _reflex action, voluntary action_, and
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
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The reflexes are mediated by the sympathetic or parasympathetic nerves of the autonomic nervous system, in response to information reaching the central nervous system from a variety of receptors in the organs and tissues.
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A fair portion of contemporary poetry over-relies on self-reflexive irony, tonal detachment, and an often irritating allusive erudition.
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This reflex process agrees in every point with the heliotropic effects of light on plant organs.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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Ellen Datlow’s masseuse is offering a 1/2 hour reflexology session.
Fantastic Fiction at KGB » Blog Archive » Half Hour Reflexology Massage by Ellen Datlow’s Masseuse
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My source, who prefers not to be named out of fear at what she described as a reflexive tendency toward "butthurt" against public criticism of Filipino cultural institutions, went on to say the following:
Planet Atheism
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Either mechanical tapping or electrical stimulation of the supraorbital regions may evoke the blink reflex.
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If you want Lies, promess in the wind, poverty, the lobbiest, Rich becoming more rich and poor goind down, wars actionned around the world withour reflexion, vote the Clintons Dynasty ..
Poll: Obama leads in Montana
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La Revolution introuvable: Reflexions sur les evenements de
1968 the Year that Rocked the World
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Inasmuch as the virtual beauty of "harmony" and "proportion" said to prevail between the intellect's discrete faculties is to prove vocal, audible, and lasting, the reflexive operation of critical writing is at least one way of producing that outcome.
The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,
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For example, in "Winter's Tale" his account of the death of the boy Mamillius is evidently a reflex of his own emotion when he lost his son, Hamnet, an emotion which at the time he pictured deathlessly in Arthur and the grief of the Queen-mother Constance.
The Man Shakespeare
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These reflexes are initiated by the excitation of duodenal mucosal chemoreceptors to acid, fats, and osmotic pressure in the luminal contents.
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My patient still had a few elicitable neurological reflexes.
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Electrical stimulation of the supraorbital nerve in the supraorbital foramen was used to evoke the blink reflex.
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Simply, critical ethnography relies for its own frameworks of analysis and exposition on the reflexive maps and indeed crypto-ethnography of its subjects to a greater degree than ever before.
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Thus, during this period, the infant assimilates all stimuli through the reflex systems.
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Here the initial reflex excitation is closely followed by an ensuing reflex inhibition commingled with and partially counter-acting the concurrent excitation.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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And (we may well wonder in reflex) what the hell is that swound flaunted for reference?
Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
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Pickens had been an intense basketball then racketball player, which meant speed, fast breaks, unexpected moves, quick reflexes, and constant improvisation.
The Prize
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I am not willing to experiment with BFN, but you can see in the following video exactly how impressive this reflex is.
Vestigial Characteristics: Monkey Features of the Human Newborn
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The self-reflexivity of the narrative serves to exteriorize Ambrose's self-conscious self-narration.
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Having sat at the table alongside the immortals, hearing their words while watching their games of footsie, he is a sort of reflexive reductionist.
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Thank you click on any link with a Japanese girl in the title reflex
Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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Nevertheless, am eager to understand better the connection between evolutionary systems theory and reflexivity.
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Angel One was saved only by his superb reflexes, honed by years of martial arts training.
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Soft apricot blooms fade to cream as the outer petals reflex.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has a diploma in Nutritional Medicine and has attended workshops in reflexology, homeopathy, bodywork and aromatherapy.
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A relation on a set is irreflexive provided that no element is related to itself.
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The tropical PEROTIS RARA, a delicate grass, producing long purple tufts of reflexed bristles, was also here observed.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Reflexite makes retroreflective materials for use in work-zone signing and on garments, drums, cones, and other equipment.
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In the first, called intrinsic reflexivization, a predicate is marked as a reflexive predicate in the lexicon.
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The clinical manifestations of neurosyphilis include seizures, ataxia, aphasia, paresis, hyperreflexia, personality and cognitive changes, visual changes, hearing loss, neuropathy, and loss of bowel and bladder functions.
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Then we do spinal reflexes - biceps tendon, triceps tendon, crossed extensor reflex, extensor carpi radialis, withdrawl reflex, patellar tendon, gastrocnemius, cranial tibial, and sciatic reflexes.
Shooting Up the Cat
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Objective: To establish an artificial reflex arc in canines to reinnervate the neuropathic bladder and restore bladder function after spinal cord injury.
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Bovary vaguely contributed to his pleasure by a kind of egotistic reflex upon himself.
Madame Bovary
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a reflex response to physical stimuli
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The song was politicised, reflexive and drenched in affectivity.
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Clematis texensis is bell shaped, and the 6cm flowers open with gently reflexed petals to reveal creamy vanilla stamens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, under life-threatening stress, you won't attempt a task if you do not have total confidence in your reflexive ability to perform it well.
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Pavlov's studies investigated the way in which environmental stimuli inspired biological reflexes in animals.
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A puzzle that immediately arises is how this complex reflexive communicative intention is meant to be recognized by the recipient.
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If the part of the body corresponding to the reflex area is out of balance then a degree of tenderness will be felt in the foot when pressure is applied.
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Endotracheal tubes promote colonization by interfering with the cough reflex and by stimulating excessive mucus secretion.
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There was also an improvement on vagally mediated arterial baroreceptor cardiac reflex sensitivity in a subset of ten testosterone patients who were compared with 12 placebo patients.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
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His trigger phrase reflexed him into a soliloquy that gave me time to think.
The Great California Game
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Cones from 10 to 17 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conic; apophyses lustrous brown-ochre or fuscous brown, elevated into thick, often reflexed, beaks with obtuse mutic umbos; seeds with large nuts and adnate striated dark gray or fuscous brown wings.
The Genus Pinus
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Our previous data demonstrate that impairment of arterial baroreceptor reflex (ABR) plays an independent role in hypertension target organ damage.
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Certainly, the very rapid respiratory rates seen during the tidal breathing collection in some of the children in this study must be attributed to reflex or cortical responses to testing.
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Do learners constitute their identities as part of a reflexive project?
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Also among the earliest daffs are the Cylamineus group, named for their reflexing flower petals which resemble those of Cyclamen.
Hellebo-R-Us « Fairegarden
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Such images are part of a sophisticated and self-reflexive medieval culture of the image.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Since the direct maximal motor twitch compared with the standard reflex twitch can reveal the proportion of the whole muscle which the standard reflex twitch activates, we can find further what proportion of the whole muscle is reflexly inhibited.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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Quarterly wellbeing weeks cover stress management and diet, and include free health checks, massages and reflexology.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like sneezing, hiccupping is a reflex.
Times, Sunday Times
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Murdoch tells Auletta of his contempt for the liberal group-think of Hollywood and its reflexive suspicion of ideas like ‘family values.’
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From birth, such an infant will reflexively grab and tightly grip whenever he perceives a physical threat.
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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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Cats have rapid reflexes.
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The visor of each blast helmet in the pod darkened accommodatingly within three milliseconds to avoid temporary blindness, but each member of the strike team squinted reflexively.
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There is another giant anemone (DISCOMA HADDONI) known to the blacks as “pootah-pootah,” whose inner, reflexed, convoluted edges are covered with tentacles of brown with yellow terminals.
My Tropic Isle
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The plaintiffs are not portraying any abnormal sensitivity or delicacy in seeking to worship in an atmosphere of quiet and calm reflexion.
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Here therefore the admixture of central inhibition with central excitation is a normal feature of a natural reflex.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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Many critics complained about the prolonged denouement of the film, which is not fair because they seem to yield to reflex rather than judge by merit.
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Other treatments on offer included facials, reflexology, reiki, acupuncture and various massages.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, just as head-scratchingly, the same media that typically treat female politicians like little girls playing dress-up and subject politicians of color to racist screeds and reflexive dismissal were getting all hot and bothered imagining a Clinton-Obama race for the Oval Office ... and telling America that this wasn't only possible, it was the most probable outcome.
Jennifer L. Pozner: Super Tuesday Media Musings, Part I: Why Media Forced Edwards Out of the Race
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The changes of baroreceptor reflex, especially the disturbance of CNS regulation function are the main factors causing the decrease of orthostatic tolerance after bed rest.
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The stability control system also triggers a reflex to dry the brakes when streets are wet, so they grip better.
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Other experiments showed that Heymans's concepts on the important role played by the glomus in the reflex control of respiration by the chemical composition of the blood were undoubtedly correct.
Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
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But it is not irreflexive either, since 1 is related to itself.
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Participation is in essence really only a refinement on the methods used to reflexively understand and interpret in everyday life.
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His reflexes are so quick.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, if liquid-based cytology is used, reflex HPV DNA testing for oncogenic HPV types is the preferred method of evaluation (AI recommendation).
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`He chuckled, but his eyes moved from me to Amber and back again in a reflexive action he could not control.
SUMMER OF FEAR
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This reflexive perspective immunizes him against the compromising racial charges often leveled against him.
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Sometimes, enunciation pierces through narration with ostentatious camera moves or reflexive images, but it finds itself swallowed by the diegesis in the end.
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I feel sorry for them, really sorry, but reflexively pick up my pace, and head for the even naughtier Underground.
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But we shouldn't just eat by reflex: it would be much healthier if we thought about our diets and tried to vary them more.
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Since this cannot be true, the statement x not-R x must be true; therefore R is irreflexive.
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At the Faithworkers Branch of Unite annual general meeting some of my colleagues have reported stories of the retaliatory attacks in such circumstances. the clash between the singular subject and the plural reflexive pronoun is stunning.
6 posts from February 2008
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The response to tickling is still somewhat like a reflex (we laugh uncontrollably when tickled, struggle to escape the tickler, push away the tickling hand).
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Actually, coughing is a healthy reflex that helps clear the airways in the throat and chest.
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On another level, over the last fifteen years many Arab films began to emanate an increasingly self-reflexive attitude to their adoption of various stylistic and generic practices.
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By premising its concept of "world" (or an all-encompassing framework by some other name) on an originary act of reflexive self-possession, Cartesian epistemology and the political philosophy of classical liberalism revolve a model of agency constituted ex negativo — that is, defined by the alleged absence of any inner pre-determination.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
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A Boar Azure armed and unguled Or langued Gules and gorged with a Coronet composed of crosses formy and fleurs-de-lys attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and ending in a ring all Or.
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It's not that he doesn't deserve it; despite the reflexive dismissal of too-cool dance music purists, Moby is simply better at what he does than the hordes of hipsters working in the same vein.
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Deep tendon reflexes of the patellar and Achilles tendon were normal.
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They like dark blue, blue, pale yellow. Contrast of black and white – reflexion of internal conflict a child cannot consult in any way.
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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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He's a history-remaker, an eclectic, an ironist, with bags of self-reflexive knowledge and knowhow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pain and hyperesthesia induce reflex muscle spasms, which leads to voluntary guarding.
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Two new allochthonous species were recently found, Amaranthus reflexus and Mesenbrianthemum cristallinum.
San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests
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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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Beat-to-beat short term regulation of blood pressure is provided by a spontaneous reflex called the baroreceptor reflex.
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It doesn't pay to get caught in reflexive habit patterns when you are moving through the complex variables that make up life.
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According to the Association of Reflexologists, the therapy is not intended as a substitute for orthodox medical treatment.
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The reflexive interview process that this method entailed is described through case examples.
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Italian dining establishments that were once the centre of mob negotiations and the odd shootout share pavements with acupuncture clinics and reflexology spas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Desperate, he hired a stenographer and dictated a very self-reflexive story about a man whose dual obsessions - gambling and a woman named Polina - become tangled.
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The points on the ear have their reflex to different bodily functions or organs.
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The relation of having opposite spin that is had by electrons in the singlet state is clearly such an irreflexive relation and Saunders argues that, since by Leibniz's law, the holding of an irreflexive relation aRb entails the existence of distinct relata a and
Structural Realism
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Patellar reflexes were markedly exaggerated on both sides, the left more so than the right, and ankle clonus was present on the left side.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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This early sucking of the child accomplishes another purpose besides the obtaining of this important laxative -- it also reflexly increases the contractibility of the muscles of the womb, which is an exceedingly important service just at this time.
The Mother and Her Child
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The use of the French reflexive in the present indicative stresses the innate auto-referentiality of his narrative.
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Once again, that party has almost reflexly chosen the populist road and wanted to extend the moratorium.
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Nikon D90: Nikon Europe kondigt opnieuw een grote stap voorwaarts aan in hun assortiment van middenklasse DX-formaat digitale spiegelreflexcamera's: de D90.
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It includes a consultation to select suitable essential oils for pregnant women, deep lymphatic massage, reflexology.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tolkien admitted, ‘My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.’
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This should give some motive for reflexion if one recalls Northrop Frye's famous generalization that Canadian literature is, or at least was, a continuous meditation on ‘Where is here?’
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This proves again that the anæsthesia is not retinal, but it proves very much more; namely, that _the retinal stimulation is transmitted to those lower centers which mediate reflex movements, at the very instant during which it is cut off from the higher, conscious centers_.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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This suggests that reflex mechanisms are diminished during the transition to sleep.
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These active reflexive behaviors allow the infant to construct his or her first differentiations within the environment.
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In like manner, circulating blood sugar in diabetes is controlled over a short term by the intake of sugars; glyconeogenesis and conversion of sugars to triglycerides and various lipoproteins for reserves; the sugar hunger reflex affected by incretin, ghelin and other chemical messengers; insulin resistance mechanisms; the release of glucose reserves by glucononeogenis, and a wide range of other mechanisms that are not completely understood — but we don't wave our hands and speak of "conducive conditions", but plan research to get real understanding.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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The normal esophagus responds immediately with a reflexive peristaltic contraction, a phenomenon called secondary peristalsis.
