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reflex arcs
n. (plural of reflex arc English)
Usage examples of "reflex arcs".
This initiates a stretch reflex (this one by way of one of the rare two-neuron reflex arcs) and the muscle contracts sharply, bringing the lower leg up in a kicking motion.
Angell suggests that the display of emotion in such cases may be due to past experience, generating habits which would require only the stimulation of cerebral reflex arcs.
Epees and handguns and hand-to-hand and yogatsu, it doesn't matter: you train the moves into your reflex arcs so you don't have to make up something while you're being attacked.
The six-tonne organic beast was controlled completely by the reflex arcs that it had been born with some centuries earlier.