Thesaurus: reflex

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1. a. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
2. a. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
3. a. Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
4. n. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
5. n. An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
6. v. t. To reflect.
7. v. t. To bend back; to turn back.
8. adj. without volition or conscious control
9. n. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
10. Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitationwithout the necessary intervention of consciousness. Reflex action(Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of animpulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nervecenter, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so callsinto action certain muscles, organs, or cells.-- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory.
11. j:19/n:81 n. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus