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Definition: REFLEX ACTION |
REFLEX ACTION1. (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. |
Crosswords: REFLEX ACTION |
| English words defined with "REFLEX ACTION": control ♦ Excito-secretory ♦ Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott Sherrington ♦ Vasomotor center. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REFLEX ACTION": hyporeflexia ♦ Kassinin ♦ Neurokinin A, Neurokinin K ♦ reflex-arc, Respiratory Mechanics. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary defines reflex as meaning
Reflex actions seen in humans include:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reflex action."
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Will instinct reflex action the insect mind finds little difference. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reflex Action (2001) | |
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Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. |
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| Language | Translations for "REFLEX ACTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | heijastusliike. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | αντανακλαστική κίνηση. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 反射運動 , 反射作" . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は"しゃさよう, は"しゃう"どう. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eflexray actionay acto reflejo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-t-x" | |
-2 letters: execration, reflection. | |
-3 letters: arecoline, centriole, coeternal, excoriate, excretion, exfoliate, fornicate, fortalice, interface, interlace, refection, reflation, reflexion, reinflate, tolerance. | |
-4 letters: acrolein, aerolite, anoretic, anorexic, carotene, centiare, cilantro, clarinet, colinear, conflate, contrail, corelate, creatine, creation, elaterin, election, electron, entailer, erection, erotical, exaction, excretal, exertion, exocrine, exoteric, external, falconer, falconet, featlier, flanerie, flatiron, flection, floatier, florence, fornical, fraction, frenetic, increate, infecter, infector, inflater, inflator, iterance, loricate, neoteric, oriental, reaction, reinfect, relation, reliance, relocate, treenail, trifocal. | |
-5 letters: acetone, aconite, aileron, alexine, aliener, alienor, aloetic, antefix, arenite, article, atelier, calorie, cariole, carline, carotin, centare, centile, central, ceratin, certain, cineole, clarion, cleaner, coalier, coexert, coinfer, cointer, conifer, corneae, corneal, coterie, creatin, crenate, elation, elector, electro, eloiner, enactor, enforce, enteral, enteric, enticer, erotica, eternal, exacter, exactor, exalter, exciter, exciton, excitor, excreta, exotica, faction, faience, fainter, fancier, fertile, fiancee, filaree, flaxier, flexion, floater, folacin, foliate, foxtail, frantic, frontal, inexact, infarct, inflate, inflect, infract, lactone, latrine, leafier, lectern, lection, lexicon, licente, lineate, locater, loftier, loricae, noticer, ocreate, oftener, olefine, ratline, recital, reclean, recline, reenact, reflate, reflect, refloat, relaxin, reliant, reticle, retinae, retinal, retinol, tacrine, teleran, tiercel, toenail, toxical, trainee, treacle, trefoil, trenail, xerotic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 46 4C 45 58 41 43 54 49 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000110 01001100 01000101 01011000 00100000 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E F L E X   A C T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0046 004C 0045 0058 0041 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5239404639582353754434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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