What is "autonomic"

Usage examples of "autonomic".

Probably some farther distance away from the moisture farm so its autonomic spy circuits could kick in and it could find a surreptitious vantage point by which it could observe and record whatever happened.

Barney said reflexively, and resumed his tinkering with the defective autonomic scoop.

She had seated herself on the fender of an autonomic tractor and was examining packages of seeds.

An alien overfullness of sensation paralyzes the nerves, suspends the autonomic processes, hollows out a blank between action and reaction.

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.

Around her waist is a bracelet of wrought glass, carrying tiny patterns of metal filaments, which send silver hyphae into the flesh of her arm, reaching for the autonomic nerves.

But he remembered enough to know that the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system was the part affected by local anesthetics, not the parasympathetic part apparently affected in the Noble and Owen cases.

This is true also of all the preganglionic nerve endings in the autonomic nervous system, but there is a deviation from this norm in connection with the postganglionic nerve endings.

If the autonomic nervous system, which controls various functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, and intestinal movement, gets out of balance, problems within the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems may very well occur and you may experience heart palpitations or diarrhea.

But he remembered enough to know that the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system was the part affected by local anesthetics, not the parasympathetic part apparently affected in the Noble and Owen cases.

Brogg fed your story into a bunch of autonomic telltales programmed to walk into government headquarters if anything happened to him?

Emergency autonomic routines to isolate him came on-line, erecting axon blockades around the swarm of neural cells in which he resided.

With another one of his underhanded psychological ploys, Boba Fett had managed to chase Bossk out of his own ship, the Hound's Tooth, and once more into an emergency escape pod, hurtling away from what Bossk had thought was certain destruction but which had turned out to be only a dud autonomic bomb.

A self-willed shutdown of his entire autonomic cardiovascular system would render Voss'on't as unprofitable as any hot bolt from the blaster slung at Boba Fett's hip would.