reflex
प्रतिक्षेप
definition
noun
a newborn baby is equipped with basic reflexes
an action that is performed as a response to a stimulus and without conscious thought.
politics was no more than a reflex of economics
a thing that is determined by and reproduces the essential features or qualities of something else.
adjective
sneezing is a reflex action
(of an action) performed without conscious thought as an automatic response to a stimulus.
(of an angle) exceeding 180°.
translation of 'reflex'
परावर्तित किंवा प्रतिक्षिप्त
example
A cough is a 'reflex' action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
Even the tears that fell were automatic, more a 'reflex' action than reflection of any real emotion.
We now know that this 'reflex' response is initiated from the class of sensory receptors called muscle spindle receptors.
Elevation of the larynx during the swallowing 'reflex' protects the airway and opens the upper esophageal sphincter.
In the respiratory tract, complex 'reflex' responses to the gastric refluxate occur in children by three mechanisms.
It is a complex 'reflex' response to the stimulation of the cough receptors of the lung.
Muscle spindles are primarily influenced by changes in length and are responsible for 'reflex' contraction of the skeletal muscles in response to stretching.
What he found was that every bird in a particular species has certain inflexible patterns of behavior, 'reflex' responses to very specific stimuli.
The points on the ear have their 'reflex' to different bodily functions or organs.
Later it becomes a 'reflex' action in response to the baby's cry or just by thinking about the baby or feeding.
That is to say, there are referential and quantificational uses of indefinite descriptions and these are a 'reflex' of a genuine semantical ambiguity.
Her feet followed his automatically, as a 'reflex' from many hour of being tortured in etiquette, posture, and dance classes.
In doing so they constitute a public and communal 'reflex' of that private, complex, individual and highly personal process through which people cope with, and come to terms with, the vicissitudes of life.
All his paradigm required was linking and relinking stimuli and responses: a salivary 'reflex' , once produced by food, was now evoked by a bell signaling the coming of food.
In a 'reflex' action the body cuts the supply of blood to the arms and legs preventing swimming, and people then sink and drown.
The active ingredients in this were alkaloids of belladonna, which we now know had the effect of inhibiting cholinergic neurotransmission and thereby 'reflex' bronchoconstriction.
It must be remembered that some individuals do not have a blink 'reflex' , due to neuro-muscular problems with the eye, and therefore are at serious risk from this laser exposure.
During the initial inflammatory phase of this process the muscle responds with a 'reflex' spasm which is the tightness or knot you can feel.
The same event, however, can take place without a swallow as a 'reflex' response to mechanical stimulation of the esophagus.
Orza is the Italian 'reflex' of a common Romance word generally thought to be of Latin origin.
The mechanism by which the body senses and responds to changes in blood pressure by 'reflex' vasodilation or contraction of peripheral vessels is impaired.
Border Collies have a high startle 'reflex' , which can sometimes endanger their lives.
Either mechanical tapping or electrical stimulation of the supraorbital regions may evoke the blink 'reflex' .
Sleep on your back - when the spit collects back there, it triggers a swallowing 'reflex' .
The inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase failed to inhibit this response, and it also did not potentiate the 'reflex' cholinergic contractions of the trachea produced by bradykinin.
The medulla controls this involuntary swallowing 'reflex' , although voluntary swallowing may be initiated by the cerebral cortex.
Two significant complications of lung transplantation include the impairment of the cough 'reflex' and mucociliary clearance.
They act on the brain to hold back the cough 'reflex' .
So in some quarters the 'reflex' response to the presidential election of November 2004 has been to emphasise how little has changed.
The tongue directs the bolus of chewed food to the pharynx as an initial step in the involuntary 'reflex' swallowing mechanism.
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