reflex
IPA: rˈifɫɛks
noun
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
verb
- (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
- (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
- To respond to a stimulus.
adjective
- Bent, turned back or reflected.
- Produced automatically by a stimulus.
- (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
- (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
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Examples of "reflex" in Sentences
- The maculoocularrelflex is a reflex in the eye.
- The extensor Babinski reflex is usually absent.
- The crossed extensor reflex is a withdrawal reflex.
- The maculospinal reflex is a reflex in the human spine.
- In the human body it is controlled by the swallowing reflex.
- This increases reflex excitability and result in convulsion.
- The reflex acts to restore the body to the standing posture.
- In the conditioned reflex, he has seen the essence of hypnosis.
- Pain reflexes in the clinical assessment of migraine syndromes.
- In the conditioned reflex, he has found what he saw as the essence of hypnosis.
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