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Definition: Startle Response |
Startle ResponseNoun1. A complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise); involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Startle ResponseSynonym: startle reaction (n). (additional references) |
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Health | One such location, for example, is in the brainstem close to structures that are responsible for the startle response, an automatic reaction to an unexpected stimulus involving rapid muscle contraction. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-l-n-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: paternosters, transportees. | |
-4 letters: alertnesses, letterpress, partnerless, paternoster, patronesses, patternless, salesperson, terneplates, tetraspores, transportee. | |
-5 letters: easterners, latenesses, leptotenes, oratresses, palenesses, parentless, penetrates, personates, pertnesses, plasterers, poetasters, portresses, postarrest, preseasons, presenters, prostrates, protesters, raptnesses, rarenesses, realnesses, reasonless, reoperates, repatterns, replasters, represents, saltpeters, stereopses, sternposts, tartnesses, teleostean, terneplate, tetraspore, transports, transposes, trespasser. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-l-n-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-t-t" | |
+5 letters: representationalisms, representationalists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 61 72 74 6C 65 52 65 73 70 6F 6E 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101110 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t a r t l e   R e s p o n s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0061 0072 0074 006C 0065 0052 0065 0073 0070 006F 006E 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5386678486787125271858281808571 |
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