Reflex
111reflex arc — Physiol. the nerve pathways followed by an impulse during a reflex. [1880 85] * * * …
112reflex arc — noun The neural pathway that mediates a reflex …
113reflex response — noun The outcome carried out by the motor effector as a result of the reflex arc …
114reflex polysynaesthetic hallucinosis — A term coined in or shortly before 2005 by the British psychiatrists Anna Goel and Francis James Eva to denote a synaesthetic hallucination elicited by a single sensory stimulus and manifesting itself in more than one sensory modality.… …
115reflex act — a relatively fixed action or pattern of response performed as a result of the triggering of a reflex arc and usually without involvement of the higher centers …
116reflex action — a response, often involuntary, resulting from the passage of excitation potential from a receptor to a muscle or gland, over a reflex arc …
117reflex amaurosis — blindness caused by the reflex action of a remote irritation …
118reflex asthma — asthma attributed to a reflex reaction to another condition …
119reflex hammer — a type of percussion hammer used to tap tendons, nerves, or muscles to test various reflexes, such as the patellar reflex …
120reflex paralysis — paralysis ascribable to peripheral irritation; in some cases secondary changes occur in the spinal cord, and the paralysis ceases to be truly reflex …
