Reflex in A Sentence

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    A blue bronze, Na2W5015, forming dark blue cubes with a red reflex, is obtained by electrolysing fused sodium paratungstate; a purple-red variety, Na2W309, and a reddish yellow form result when sodium carbonate and sodium tungstate are heated respectively with tungsten trioxide and tinfoil.

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    A breath holding spell is an involuntary reflex because it follows exhalation rather than inhalation.

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    A component of this temporary deficit is inadequate control of their breathing reflex.

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    A Gentle reflexology treatment massages the feet and each reflex point can be stimulated or calmed to encourage a return to health.

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    A normal response to the Babinski reflex test depends upon the age of the person being examined.

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    A person who is drunk has an impaired gag reflex and may choke if you do this.

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    A single lens reflex (SLR) digital camera uses a single lens to create the image.

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    Absence of this reflex in the neonate is an ominous implication of underlying neurological damage.

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    Absence or presence of a reflex is a symptom, not a disorder.

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    Additionally, babies have what is called a "dive reflex," meaning that when submerged, they will hold their breath and open their eyes.

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    An asymmetrical response with this reflex may indicate a fractured clavicle or a birth injury to the nerves of the arm.

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    An example is the ' knee-jerk ' reflex, which involves a sudden twitch of a limb muscle caused by tapping the tendon.

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    An infant who is not moving a fractured arm because of the pain will still exhibit a Moro reflex.

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    An investigation into the effect of tape on reflex activity in the shoulder girdle muscles using the H reflex.

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    Another type of reflex test is called the Babinski test, which involves gently stroking the sole of the foot to assess proper development of the spine and cerebral cortex.

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    Apparently there is an influence on the afferent nerves of the part which causes a reflex contraction - some authors say dilatation - of the vessels in the internal organs that are under the control of the same segment of the nervous system as that supplying the area of skin from which the exciting impulse comes.

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    As technology advances, Polaroid creates the SX-70, which is the first SLR (single lens reflex) instant camera.

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    Asymmetrical tonic neck reflex (sometimes called the tonic labyrinthine reflex) is activated as a result of turning the head to one side.

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    At that point, agonal breathing usually takes over with perhaps just an occasional breathing reflex noticed over a 15 to 30 minute period.

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    Babies born before 34 weeks of gestation do not have a fully developed central nervous system, and they often do not have adequate control of the breathing reflex.

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    Babies have a primitive crawling reflex at birth, which is instinctively activated when they are on their abdomens.

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    Babinski or plantar reflex is triggered by stroking one side of the infant's foot upward from the heel and across the ball of the foot.

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    Blink reflex is stimulated by momentarily shining a bright light directly into the neonate's eyes causing him or her to blink.

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    Blisters applied at some distance from inflamed parts are also sometimes useful; and probably they produce this good effect by causing a reflex contraction of the arteries in the inflamed part, and thus acting like a cold application.

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    Body movements may occur such as brief arm or leg movement or a startle reflex.

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    Built-in Amp and Speakers The CR-4 comes equipped with two speakers in bass reflex enclosures, providing you with a lot of options.

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    But in the decapitated animal we have good arguments for belief that we get the reflex movement alone as response; the psychical touch drops out.

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    But the influence of the alkaloid upon the spinal cord is very marked and characteristic. The reflex functions of the cord are entirely abolished, and it has been experimentally shown that this is due to a direct influence upon the cells in the anterior cornua.

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    But whilst all the organic processes in man go on mechanically, and though by reflex action he may repel attack unconsciously, still the first affirmation of the system was that man was essentially a thinking being; and, while we retain this original dictum, it must not be supposed that the mind is a mere spectator, or like the boatman in the boat.

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    Children suffering from reflex anoxic seizures (RAS) have repeated brief cardiac arrests.

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    Cough suppressants act on the center in the brain that controls the cough reflex.

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    Could we assume that there is in the adult man reflex machinery which is of higher order than the merely spinal, which employs much more complex motor mechanisms than they, and is connected with a much wider range of sense organs; and could we assume that this reflex machinery, although usually associated in its action with memorial and volitional processes, may in certain circumstances be sundered from these latter and unattendant on them - may in fact continue in work when the higher processes are at a standstill - then we might imagine a condition resembling that of the somnambulistic and cataleptic states of hypnotism.

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    Digital single lens reflex cameras, or DSLR cameras, contain more professional features and allow for more artistic control.

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    Doll's eye reflex can be noted with the infant supine (lying on the back) and slowly turning the head to either side.

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    Doubtless what we have is in the main a reflex of the heuristic character of Aristotle's own work as pioneer.

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    Even the less expensive razors, such as the Philips Norelco reflex, can be run under a tap for cleaning.

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    For a patient of this age and comorbidity with obtunded swallowing reflex the use of combined sedation with oropharyngeal LA was probably contraindicated.

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    For example, a hyperactive grasp reflex may cause the hand to stay clenched in a tight fist.

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    Galant reflex is stimulated by placing the infant on the stomach or lightly supporting him or her under the abdomen with a hand and, using a fingernail, gently stroking one side of the neonate's spinal column from the head to the buttocks.

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    General theory never has been, and in the nature of things never can be, the actual reflex of the life and movement of the economic world.

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    Grasping reflex occurs as the palmar reflex when a finger is placed in the neonate's palm and the neonate grasps the finger.

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    Having a single lens reflex (SLR) camera will go a long way to help you capture details of the moon's surface that you would not be able to with a basic point-and-shoot camera.

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    He calls it the Principle of Reflection, the Reflex Principle of Approbation, and assigns to it as its province the motives or propensions to action.

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    He holds that we pass without break from the phenomena of bodily life to the phenomena of mental life, that consciousness arises in the course of the living being's adaptation to its environment, and that there is a continuous evolution from reflex action through instinct and memory up to reason.

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    His restless life was the reflex of a mental history disturbed by prolonged agitation.

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    However, this reflex disappears during the early weeks of life, and true crawling does occur until six months, normally around the same time that an infant is able to sit up alone for extended periods of time.

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    If a reflex is absent or abnormal in an infant, this may suggest significant neurological problems.

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    If their palms are touched, they will make a very tight fist, but this is an unconscious reflex action called the Darwinian reflex, and it disappears within two to three months.

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    If things different but similar have the same attributes, and are thereby the same, then in the first place the Kantian categories, though thoughts of mental origin and therefore confined to mind, are nevertheless applicable to things, because things, though different from, are the same as, thoughts, and have the categories of thoughts; in the second place, the Fichtian Ego of mankind is not the Absolute Reason of God, and yet is the same Absolute Reason; in the third place, the Schellingian Nature is the "other " of Spirit, and yet, being a mere reflex of the Idea of Nature, is identical with Spirit; and as this Spirit is everywhere the same in God and men, Nature is also identical with our Spirit, or rather with the Infinite Spirit, or Absolute Reason, which alone exists.

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    If this reflex is still present at eight to nine months of age, the baby will not be able to support its weight by straightening its arms and bringing its knees beneath its body.

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    If we assume that there is a material process at the basis of ideation, we may take the analogy of the concomitance between a spinal reflex movement and a skin sensation.

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    If your baby's sucking reflex hasn't fully developed, he will not be able to empty your breast sufficiently.

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    In 1848 Airy invented the reflex zenith tube to replace the zenith sector previously employed.

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    In 2004, she came forward to explain her behavior was due to her recent treatment for reflex sympathetic disorder, a condition related to intense join pain after an injury.

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    In adults and children over the age of one-and-a-half years, the myelin sheath should be completely formed, and, as a result, all the toes will curl under (planter flexion reflex).

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    In both respects the reflex action of the Novatianist and Donatist controversies upon Catholicism was disastrous to the earlier idea of church-fellowship. Formal and technical tests of membership, such as the reception of sacraments from a duly authorized clergy, came to replace Christ's own test of character.

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    In large doses it has a depressant action on the nervous system, leading even to coma and total abolition of reflex action.

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    In May of 1991, Kodak introduced its DCS 100, the world's first commercially available DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera.

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    In normal development, the primary reflex system is inhibited or transformed in the first year of life and a secondary or postural reflex system emerges.

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    In other words the direct process may be going on rightly, while a full reflex cognizance thereof may be utterly impossible.

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    In response to suckling, the hormone oxytocin causes the milk ejection reflex or "let-down" reflex to occur.

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    In some cases, children develop their visual reflex later than normal.

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    In the same way, the reflex act of coughing is useful in removing either foreign bodies or excessive secretion from the air passages; but when the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract is irritated and inflamed, it produces a feeling of tickling and a desire to cough sometimes very violently; yet the coughing simply tends to exhaust the patient, because there is really little or nothing to bring up. The same is the case in inflammation of the lung substance itself.

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    Inhibition of this reflex occurs from the third to the sixth month.

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    Is this some sort of reflex, or is it their way of showing that they like it?

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    It also is called type 2, white breath-holding, reflex anoxic seizure, or pallid infantile syncope.

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    It causes your body to release hormones for the "flight or fight" reflex.

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    It excites the motor areas of the spinal cord and increases their reflex irritability.

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    It forms quadratic prisms, having a violet reflex and insoluble in boiling hydrochloric acid.

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    It forms small brown lamellae which dissolve slowly in water to give a fuchsine-red solution possessing a violet reflex.

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    It forms small crystals, showing a brilliant green reflex, and is soluble in water and alcohol with formation of a deep red solution.

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    It is a pure peripheral vasoconstrictor and reflex bradycardia, needing treatment with atropine can occur.

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    It is believed that from the nature of the cell in which she is ovipositing, the queen derives a reflex impulse to lay the appropriate egg - fertilized in the queen or worker cell, unfertilized in the drone cell, as previously mentioned.

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    Later the affected muscles become exquisitely tender, and then atrophy, while the knee-jerk or other reflex is lost.

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    Lewes and others the doctrine of "cerebral reflex" was suggested, whereby actions, at first achieved only by incessant attention, became organized as conscious or subconscious habits; as for instance in the playing on musical or other instruments, when acts even of a very elaborate kind may directly follow the impulses of sensations, conscious adaptation and the deliberate choice of means being thus economized.

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    Like Leibnitz, he proceeds from the fact that our perceptions are sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious, to the inconsequent conclusion, that there are beings with nothing but unconscious perceptions; and by a similar non sequitur, because there is the idea of an end in will, he argues that there must be an unconscious idea of an end in instinctive, in reflex, in all action.

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    Like the rooting reflex, it is inhibited by the third to fourth month.

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    Many of the children had to be force fed as they had no swallow reflex.

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    Many points in the development and mechanism of the nematocyst are disputed, but it is tolerably certain (I) that the cnidocil is of sensory nature, and that stimulation, by contact with prey or in other ways, causes a reflex discharge of the nematocyst; (2) that the discharge is an explosive change whereby the in-turned thread is suddenly everted and turned inside out, being thus shot through the opening in the outer wall of the capsule, and forced violently into the tissues of the prey, or, it may be, of an enemy; (3) that the thread inflicts not merely a mechanical wound, but instils an irritant poison, numbing and paralysing in its action.

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    Moro reflex-A startle response in a newborn, characterized by spreading the arms with the palms up and fingers flexed; the reflex usually disappears by two months of age.

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    Most often, the cause of a baby's insufficient sucking reflex is prematurity.

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    Nature, e.g., is not deduced as real because rational, but being real its rationality is presumed and, very imperfectly, exhibited in a way to make it possible to conceive it as in its essence the reflex of Reason.

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    Nor was the theory of reflex action confined to the more "mechanical" functions.

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    One rare problem is called reflex sympathetic dystrophy or complex regional pain syndrome.

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    Only a small fraction of Goethe's work was written in an impersonal and objective spirit, and sprang from what might be called a conscious artistic impulse; by far the larger - and the better - part is the immediate reflex of his feelings and experiences.

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    Other less common signs or symptoms of unprotected exposure to UV rays may include chronic headaches and wrinkling of the skin around the eye caused by the constant reflex squinting to try to decrease the amount of UV rays entering the eye.

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    Parents should expect reflex tests to be included in every examination given to their children by a doctor or other healthcare provider.

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    Parents should only be concerned when they are told of abnormal reflex test results.

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    Potassium is potentially quite toxic; however, potassium poisoning is usually prevented because of the vomiting reflex.

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    Prone crawl reflex can be stimulated by placing the neonate prone (face down) on a flat surface.

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    Pupillary reflex occurs with darkening the room and shining a penlight directly into the neonate's eye for several seconds.

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    Reflex response-No reflex response when given stimulation would receive a zero.

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    Reflex tests are entirely safe, and no special precautions are needed.

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    Reflex tests are simple physical tests of nervous system function.

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    Reflex tests measure the presence and strength of a number of reflexes.

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    Reflexes-A common examination will be given to check your infant's Moro reflex, which is the reflex that is caused by a fear of falling.

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    Rooting reflex is stimulated by touching a finger to the infant's cheek or the corner of the mouth.

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    Schwartz, whose devotion and success told with such remarkable reflex influence on the Church at home.

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    Semi-professional. They kind of cameras are often called SLRs, which means Single Lens Reflex.

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    Similarly, the plantar reflex occurs by placing a finger against the base of the neonate's toes and the toes curl downward to grasp the finger.

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    Since, however, the evidence of ordinary consciousness almost always goes to prove that the individual, especially in relation to future acts, regards himself as being free within certain limitations to make his own choice of alternatives, many determinists go so far as to admit that there may be in any action which is neither reflex nor determined by external causes solely an element of freedom.

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    Single lens reflex cameras perform well in regards to response time, with a near instantaneous response.

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    Sound quality is ensured with integrated full range hi-fi speakers and a bass reflex port for enhanced bass performance.

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    Spasticity means having an increased stretch reflex.

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    Stepping reflex is observed by holding the infant in an upright position and touching one foot lightly to a flat surface, such as the bed.

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    Such is the reflex and mechanical movement independent of the mind.

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    Sucking reflex is triggered by placing a finger or the mother's nipple in the infant's mouth.

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    Symmetrical tonic neck reflex occurs with either the extension or flexion of the infant's head.

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    The alkaloid calabarine is, on the other hand, a stimulant of the motor and reflex functions of the cord, so that only the pure alkaloid physostigmine and not any preparation of Calabar bean itself should be used when it is desired to obtain this action.

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    The attitude may be described as due to prolonged, not very intense, discharge from reflex centres that regulate posture and are probably intimately connected with the cerebellum.

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    The audiologist observes startle responses and motor reflex changes in the child as various noisemakers are employed to elicit these responses.

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    The brevity of the interval between the tap on the knee and the beginning of the resultant contraction of the muscle seems such as to exclude the possibility of reflex development.

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    The commercial policy of a state is merely the reflex of its system of public finance (see e.g.English Finance).

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    The dental dam can cause patients with a strong gag reflex some difficulty.

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    The discoveries of the separate paths of sensory and motor impulses in the spinal cord, and consequently of the laws of reflex action, by Charles Bell and Marshall Hall respectively, in their illumination of the phenomena of nervous function, may be compared with the discovery in the region of the vascular system of the circulation of the blood; for therein a key to large classes of normal and aberrant functions and a fertile principle of interpretation were obtained.

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    The examiner will also assess the sensation capabilities of the pharynx, by stimulating the area with a wooden tongue depressor, causing a gag reflex.

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    The familiar knee-jerk reflex is an example; this reflex tests the integrity of the spinal cord in the lower back region.

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    The gag reflex can interfere with the performance of this piercing procedure.

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    The golgi tendon reflex allows you to deepen a stretch and promote further flexibility and a better stretch.

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    The head is violently displaced followed by reflex contraction in the opposite direction.

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    The infinite God is the all; the world of independent objects is the result of reflection or self-consciousness, by which the infinite unity is broken up. God is thus over and above the distinction of subject and object; our knowledge is but a reflex or picture of the infinite essence.

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    The iris is a good example of a reflex arc.

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    The jaw reflex was very brisk, there was no tendon reflexes in the limbs.

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    The latter may be performed with instruments, such as lights and reflex hammers, and usually does not cause any pain to the child.

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    The milk ejection reflex or 'let down', is when the alveoli push milk out.

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    The Moro reflex (or startle reflex) occurs when an infant is lying in a supine position and is stimulated by a sudden loud noise that causes rapid or sudden movement of the infant's head.

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    The newborn receives a total score (Apgar score) that ranges from 0 to 10 based on rating color, heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, and reflex irritability.

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    The only legal standpipes for use in our area are supplied by Reflex Plant.

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    The palmar reflex disappears around the sixth month.

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    The pediatrician will often perform a red reflex test to diagnose or confirm leukocoria.

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    The physical "touch" that initiates the psychical "touch" initiates, through the very same nerve channels, a reflex movement responsive to the physical "touch," just as the psychical "touch" may be considered also a response to the same physical event.

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    The presence and strength of a reflex is an important indication of neurological functioning.

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    The pupils should both constrict equally; this reflex should not disappear.

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    The reaction is initially a voluntary reflex and a sign that the dog likes the stimulation.

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    The receptive organs of the muscular sense and of the semicircular canals are to be regarded as the sites of origin of this reflex tonus of the skeletal muscles.

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    The reflex arc The three types of neurones are arranged in circuits and networks, the simplest of which is the reflex arc.

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    The reflex should be inhibited by six months of age in the waking state.

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    The Role of the Primitive Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR) in Balance, Co-ordination Problems and Specific Learning Difficulties, including Dyslexia.

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    The single lens reflex digital camera works in the same fashion as its older film-based cousins.

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    The sucking reflex is strong in all infants and should be encouraged in infants with facial clefts even if the sucking is inefficient, since the reflex seems to help the later development of speech.

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    The theory behind Mudras is that each area of the hand has a reflex reaction with a specific part of the brain.

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    The work of the last has some independent merit; but all are interesting as showing a fusion of Greek and Arabian medicine, the latter having begun to exercise even in the 11th century a reflex influence on the schools of Byzantium.

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    There appears also to be a specific action of lowering the reflex excitability of the spinal cord.

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    There are no tides, and usually only a slight current towards the outlet, though powerful currents are temporarily produced by the rapid return of waters after a storm, and during the height of a westerly gale there is invariably a reflex current into the west end of the lake.

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    There is a gradual diminution with age in the power of some spinal reflexes, for example the knee-jerk reflex.

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    These drugs reduce blood pressure, resulting in a reflex tachycardia that may exacerbate angina.

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    These nerve endings or ' reflex points ' are related to various zones of the body.

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    These rules for the individual are but the image or reflex of the political organization of the perfect or ideal state; and the man who strives to lead this life is called the solitary, not because he withdraws from society, but because, while in it, he guides himself by reference to a higher state, an ideal society.

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    They pass more readily through mucous membranes, but almost every one of these is provided not only with a coating of mucus, which obstructs their passage, but with some reflex mechanism which tends to remove them.

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    This earlier Marduk, however, was effaced by the reflex of the political development through which the Euphrates valley passed and which led to imbuing him with traits belonging to gods who at an earlier period were recognized as the heads of the pantheon.

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    This immediate pleasure that we take in goodness (and displeasure in its opposite) is due to a susceptibility which he calls the " reflex " or " moral " sense, and compares with our susceptibility to beauty and deformity in external things; it furnishes both an additional direct impulse to good conduct, and an additional gratification to be taken into account in the reckoning which proves the coincidence of virtue and happiness.

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    This implies that the actual rehearsal and repetition of primary reflex movements play a role in the inhibition process itself.

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    This induces a reflex secretion from the salivary and gastric glands, which is followed or accompanied by increased vascularity of the gastric mucous membrane, and by some degree of activity on the part of the muscular wall of the stomach.

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    This is a necessary reflex triggered by the mother's nipple during breastfeeding.

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    This marks them off from such reflex acts as are unconsciously performed, and from the tropisms of plants and other lowly organisms. There remains, however, the difficulty of finding any satisfactory criterion of the presence of consciousness.

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    This reflex activity with "paralysis of will" is characteristic of the somnambulistic state.

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    This reflex becomes inhibited around the ninth to tenth month.

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    This reflex becomes inhibited by the sixth month to enable crawling.

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    This reflex can become inhibited at any time between the first and third month.

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    This reflex should disappear between three to four months of age.

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    This reflex should not become inhibited.

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    This reflex will be inhibited by three to four months of age.

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    This reflex will disappear at approximately two months of age.

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    This will mean choosing between a point and shoot camera or a digital single lens reflex camera.

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    This" communion of the body and blood of Christ,"which in early writings is clearly distinguished from the thankoffering which preceded it, and which furnished the materials for it, gradually came to supersede the thank-offering in importance, and to exercise a reflex influence upon it.

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    To activate the golgi tendon reflex, lean into your stretch and hold it for about 10 seconds.

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    To do this, the back of the throat is sprayed with a topical anesthetic to soothe the nerves causing the gag reflex.

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    To do this, the doctor will allow your infant's head to fall a short (and safe) distance and then watch for the Moro reflex, in which she should fling out her arms and legs.

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    To ride a vehicle implies achieving a oneness with it, operating the controls by reflex rather than through conscious thought.

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    To such fields may be added the yet more complicated problems of those reflex waves which flowed backwards from India into the border highlands.

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    Wasmann considers that ants are neither miniature human beings nor mere reflex automata, and most students of their habits will probably accept this intermediate position as the most satisfactory.

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    We are in the realm of human volition, not biological reflex.

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    When performing the Babinski reflex test, the doctor will gently stroke the outer soles of the person's feet with the mallet while checking to see whether the big toe extends out as a result.

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    When this happens, his self-protection reflex kicks in.

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    While people can generally cough voluntarily, a true cough is usually a reflex triggered when an irritant stimulates one or more of the cough receptors found at different points in the respiratory system.