- cochleo-orbicular reflex
- cochleopalpebral reflex contraction of the orbicularis palpebrarum muscle when a sharp, sudden noise is made close to the ear; it does not occur in total deafness from labyrinthine disease.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
cochleo-orbicular reflex
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