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reflex

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Word definitions for reflex in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "reflection of light," from verb reflex meaning "refract, deflect" (late 14c.), from Late Latin reflexus "a bending back," noun use of past participle of reflectere (see reflection ). Meaning "involuntary nerve stimulation" first recorded 1877, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" [syn: automatic , reflex(a) , reflexive ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. r['e]flexe. See Reflect .] Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its ...

Usage examples of reflex.

Acting on a trained reflex he had had drummed into him throughout his apprenticeship, he flung up a defensive shield without thinking, a telekinetic barrier against anything solid that might come his way.

I have natural reflexes and I test off the scale on autonomic visualization.

What Tick had meant when he talked about his neural reflexes and superb autonomic termperospatial visualization.

Gyllir rocked with it, Bern gasped with the force, pulled the horse back to his right in the sea, by reflex, more than anything.

Hands pull with senile reflex for newsies to protect against the autumn cold, but the newsies are no longer there, the FreeVee has killed the last of them.

In a case studied by Fevrier the exploration of a lateral pharyngeal fistula produced by the introduction of the sound violent reflex phenomena, such as pallor of the face and irregular, violent beating of the heart.

Thorin recoiled a step and in a lightning reflex movement, drew his pistolet from its holster.

Babinski contraction of all five digits of right foot, no plantar reflex.

By pressing where Angelique pressed, by working the genital reflex zone on the plantar side of the heel, she had the man moaning, facedown in his pillow.

Then the pressoreceptor reflex, a sympathetic reflex triggered by diminished arterial pressure, cut in, and in89 90LarrV Niven and Steven Barnes creased the efficacy of the unaffected heart muscle, giving Stonecypher respite from the immediate agony.

As a reflex the Killer swung his pulser, clubbing Vayim over the head rather than firing at him in such an enclosed space.

Then, the reflex of that Fount Spied below, will Reason mount Lordly and a quenchless force, Lighting Pain to its mad source, Scaring Fear till Fear escapes, Shot through all its phantom shapes.

Lara Raith had the reflexes that were depressingly common in all of those vampire types, and she darted out of the way of the flames.

For, simply to know thee,--to listen to thy heaven-inspired utterance, might bring the most renownless student some reflex of thine honor!

Whether this refusal results from absorption in other employment or from some superstitious belief, it is a violation of the will of our Maker, and the consequent suffering and dissolution are the retributive hell or reflex signals, painfully pointing out our duty.