Reflex Action

The bulb, because of certain special reflex-action pathways completed through it, is the portion of the central nervous system concerned in the control of respiration, circulation, and the secretion of liquids. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)

When you are hard hit the soul suffers a reflex-action. ❋ Unknown (1924)

The subject had been reflex-action and especially the scratch-reflex of the guinea-pig30 as investigated by Sherrington; we had discussed also the attempts of other authors to explain the higher mental functions in terms of reflex-action. 31 My own preference for such studies as applied to the explanation of dreams had been touched upon. ❋ Unknown (1916)

And this, fifty years after Herbert Spencer's tremendous emphasis on specific studies in reflex-action! ❋ Unknown (1916)

Specifically, in addition to the mental response to the external stimulus, there was a phantasy representing an imaginary wish-fulfilment: namely the desire to forsake the study of histology, with the eye-straining search through the microscope, in favor of the study of reflex-action or reflexology. ❋ Unknown (1916)

These examples of muscular movements which occur independently of the will, or in spite of it, illustrate what physiologists call reflex-action; as likewise do sneezing and coughing. ❋ Herbert Spencer (1861)

Burying its collective head in the sand is almost reflex-action in the leadership in Dharamshala, when faced with a crisis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

McPain just barely taps the knee to get the reflex-action going. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"That is enough," we hear Dr. Freud saying, "It is obvious what kind of reflex-action you have in mind! ❋ Unknown (1916)

"If you had one of these consciences -- I mean the kind of conscience that pretends to belong to you, and acts as if it belonged to some one else," I said "one of these dead-frog-leg, reflex-action consciences, working and twitching away on you day and night, the way I have, you'd _have_ to think about it sometimes. ❋ Gerald Stanley Lee (1903)