reflex
反射,反射作用,反射性,反射物
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Definitions
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- : Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- : occurring in reaction; responsive.
- : cast back; reflected, as light, color, etc.
- : bent or turned back.
- : designating a radio apparatus in which the same circuit or part performs two functions.
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- : Physiology. Also called reflex act .movement caused by a reflex response.Also called reflex action. the entire physiological process activating such movement.
- : any automatic, unthinking, often habitual behavior or response.
- : the reflection or image of an object, as exhibited by a mirror or the like.
- : a reproduction, as if in a mirror.
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Glanzman’s team went back to their aplysia and trained them over two days to prolong their siphon-withdrawal reflex.
His team, attempting to create and erase a memory in aplysia, periodically delivered mild electric shocks to train the mollusk to prolong a reflex, one where it withdraws, upon touch, its siphon, a little breathing tube between the gill and the tail.
What’s more, the snakes have hackedtheir prey’s natural escape reflexes.
That’s why a snapping twig can activate the fight-or-flight reflexes that make us scream.
The position of the testes is a reflex controlled by the cremaster muscle, which brings them closer to the body in colder temperatures to maintain the warmth needed for sperm production.
But when a serial sex predator is playing fanboy, the gag reflex kicks in.
Worry has become as automatic a reflex as breathing in your sleep.
Then came the moment when a reflex born of a lifetime with a badge caused him to check the door window at the end of the car.
He is quite a bundle of stimulus and reflex, with no reflection.
The term Affluenza caused a national gag reflex—and as a doctor I can assure you that, no, Affluenza is not a real affliction.
Even if I were to be shot, the reflex action of my fingers would pull the trigger of this revolver and McGinty will die.