'Reflex' definitions:
Definition of 'reflex'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" [syn: automatic, reflex(a), reflexive]
noun
An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus [syn: reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction]
Definition of 'Reflex'
From: GCIDE
- Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks; formerly r?*fl?ks"), n. [L. reflexus a bending back. See Reflect.]
- 1. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. [1913 Webster]
- Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Physiol.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. [1913 Webster]
- Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reflex'
From: GCIDE
- Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. r['e]flexe. See Reflect.]
- 1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. [1913 Webster]
- The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. [1913 Webster]
- Reflex action (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.
- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reflex'
From: GCIDE
- Reflex \Re*flex"\ (r?*fl?ks"), v. t. [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere. See Reflect.]
- 1. To reflect. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bend back; to turn back. --J. Gregory. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reflex'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action and reaction,
- adumbration,
- answer,
- antiphonal,
- arch,
- automatic,
- automatic reaction,
- automatic response,
- autonomic reaction,
- back,
- backlash,
- backward,
- backwash,
- behavior,
- bend,
- bend back,
- blind,
- blind impulse,
- bounceback,
- bow,
- brain wave,
- brainstorm,
- casual,
- clout,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- conditioned response,
- conditioning,
- counter,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- dome,
- drive,
- echo,
- embow,
- fancy,
- flash,
- fleeting impulse,
- flex,
- force,
- forced,
- gut,
- gut response,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- impact,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- impulse,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- indeliberate,
- inflect,
- inspiration,
- instinct,
- instinctive,
- instrumental conditioning,
- involuntary,
- involuntary impulse,
- loop,
- mark,
- mechanical,
- natural impulse,
- negative reinforcement,
- notion,
- operant conditioning,
- outline,
- Pavlovian conditioning,
- positive reinforcement,
- predictable response,
- print,
- psychagogy,
- quick hunch,
- reacting,
- reaction,
- reactionary,
- reactive,
- recoil,
- recurve,
- reeducation,
- reflect,
- reflection,
- reflex action,
- reflexive,
- refluence,
- refluent,
- reflux,
- reinforcement,
- reorientation,
- repercussion,
- reply,
- respondence,
- respondent,
- responding,
- response,
- responsive,
- retroaction,
- retroactionary,
- retroactive,
- retroflex,
- return,
- reverberation,
- reversed,
- revulsion,
- revulsive,
- rise,
- round,
- sag,
- shadow,
- silhouette,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- sudden thought,
- swag,
- sweep,
- turn,
- turned around,
- unadvised,
- uncalculated,
- unconditioned reflex,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unmeditated,
- unpremeditated,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unthinking response,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting,
- urge,
- vault,
- wind,
- wrong-way,
- wrong-way around
Words containing 'Reflex'
- Reflexed,
- Reflexibility,
- Reflexible,
- Reflexity,
- Reflexive,
- Reflexively,
- Reflexiveness,
- reflexivity,
- Patellar reflex,
- Reflex action,
- Reflex nerve,
- Tendon reflex,
- accommodation reflex,
- acquired reflex,
- act reflexively,
- babinski reflex,
- conditional reflex,
- conditioned reflex,
- defecation reflex,
- gag reflex,
- inborn reflex,
- innate reflex,
- instinctive reflex,
- light reflex,
- micturition reflex,
- moro reflex,
- move reflexively,
- myotactic reflex,
- pharyngeal reflex,
- pilomotor reflex,
- plantar reflex,
- pupillary reflex,
- rectal reflex,
- reflex angle,
- reflex arc,
- reflex camera,
- reflex epilepsy,
- reflex response,
- reflexive pronoun,
- reflexive verb,
- rooting reflex,
- startle reflex,
- stretch reflex,
- suckling reflex,
- unconditioned reflex,
- knee-jerk reflex