autonomic
IPA: ɔtʌnˈɑmɪk
adjective
- (neurology) Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.
- (neuroanatomy, neurology) Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.
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Examples of "autonomic" in Sentences
- It is for this reason called the autonomic nervous system.
- There’s a chance you’d experience what we call autonomic hyperreflexia, uncontrolled reflex motion.
- I had to confront my parents today; they wouldn’t use the term autonomic dysfunction or Shy-Dragers.
- In this portion of the nervous system, then, there is a kind of self-government and it is therefore known as the autonomic nervous system.
- This is because the brain, of course, which controls the emotions like anxiety is also linked to the heart through what we call the autonomic nervous system.
- Let's deconstruct that in autonomic terms: the windmill adapted its state to the new environment, using the external change as both the power and the alignment for the internal change.
- (It was formerly called the sympathetic nervous system, but this term is now limited to one part of this system, and the term autonomic to another part, although some writers still use the term sympathetic for the whole, and others [the English] the term autonomic for the whole.)
- You know it ` s easy to blame the mother and father and to try to draw a direct link, but researchers showing that if someone has anti-social or sociopathic personality, that sometimes they have what we call autonomic under arousal, meaning they don ` t have as much anxiety as you and I do about getting into trouble.
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