REFLEX
\ɹˈiːflɛks], \ɹˈiːflɛks], \ɹ_ˈiː_f_l_ɛ_k_s]\
Definitions of REFLEX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
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Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
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Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
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Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
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An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
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To reflect.
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To bend back; to turn back.
By Oddity Software
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Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
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Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
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Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
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Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
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An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
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To reflect.
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To bend back; to turn back.
By Noah Webster.
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An involuntary movement or exercise of function in a part, excited in response to a stimulus applied to the periphery and transmitted to the brain or spinal cord.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A sending back of light or color; an image, as in a mirror; an involuntary movement of some part of the body.
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Turned or thrown back from a surface, as light or color; caused by action in return; as, a reflex influence; in physiology, pertaining to or caused by some impulse, independently of will.
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To bend or turn back.
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Reflexed.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Involuntary muscular or organic movement, due to excitement of nerves.
By William R. Warner
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Bent or turned back: reflected: (physiology) said of certain movements which take place independent of the will, being sent back from a nerve-centre in answer to a stimulus from the surface: (paint.) illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
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Reflection: light reflected from an illuminated surface.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Turned or thrown backward; reflective.
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Reflection, or an image produced by reflection; a mere copy.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The term used to express the fact that when a sensory nerve is stimulated, the nerve impulse, on reaching the nerve center, is returned (reflected) through an efferent nerve to the periphery; as a noun, a r. action, movement, secretion, etc.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
