reflex action
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "reflex action":
action and reaction, answer, automatic reaction, automatic writing,
automatism, autonomic reaction, blind impulse, bounceback,
compulsiveness, conditioning, echo, echolalia, echopraxia, impulse,
instinct, instinctiveness, involuntariness, predictable response,
reaction, reflection, reflex, refluence, reflux, reply,
respondence, response, retroaction, return, reverberation,
revulsion, rise, sheer chemistry, unthinking response,
unwilledness
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