An involuntary reaction in response to a stimulus applied to the periphery and transmitted to the nervous centers in the brain or spinal cord
A reaction, involuntary movement or response to a stimulus applied to the periphery and transmitted to the nerve centers in the brain or spinal cord
Your reflexes are your ability to react quickly with your body when something unexpected happens, for example when you are involved in sport or when you are driving a car. It takes great skill, cool nerves and the reflexes of an athlete. In biology, an automatic and inborn response to a stimulus that involves a nerve impulse passing from a sensory nerve cell to a muscle or gland without reaching the level of consciousness. Simple reflexes include sucking, swallowing, blinking, scratching, and the knee jerk. Most reflexes consist of complex patterns of many unconsciously coordinated muscular actions that form the basis of much instinctive behavior in animals. Examples include walking, standing, the cat's righting reflex, and basic sexual acts
An innate and automatic response to sensory input We have reflexes to withdraw from pain, startle at sensations that surprise us, and extend our head and body upward in response to vestibular input There are many other reflexes
Contraction of a muscle in response to tapping the tendon or guider with a reflex hammer; it requires intact sensory nerve supply to transmit the stretching of receptors in the muscle, and intact motor nerve supply for the muscle to contract
A reflex or a reflex action is a normal, uncontrollable reaction of your body to something that you feel, see, or experience. tests for reflexes, like tapping the knee or the heel with a rubber hammer
{i} automatic reaction, involuntary response; physiological process that causes an involuntary response; energy that is returned from a surface; mirror image, reflected image