'Reflex action' definitions:
Definition of 'reflex action'
From: WordNet
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 action'
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]
Synonyms of 'reflex action'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action and reaction,
- answer,
- automatic reaction,
- automatic writing,
- automatism,
- autonomic reaction,
- blind impulse,
- bounceback,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioning,
- echo,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- impulse,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- involuntariness,
- predictable response,
- reaction,
- reflection,
- reflex,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- reply,
- respondence,
- response,
- retroaction,
- return,
- reverberation,
- revulsion,
- rise,
- sheer chemistry,
- unthinking response,
- unwilledness