From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks; formerly r?*fl?ks"), noun [L. reflexus a bending back. See {Reflect}.]
1. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. --Shak.
On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face. --Tennyson.
2. (Physiol.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
{Patellar reflex}. See {Knee jerk}, under {Knee}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), adjective [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. r['e]flexe. See {Reflect}.]
1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir M. Hale.
2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
{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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reflex \Re*flex"\ (r?*fl?ks"), verb (used with an object) [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere. See {Reflect}.]
2. To bend back; to turn back. --J. Gregory.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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
1: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus [syn: {instinctive reflex}, {innate reflex}, {inborn reflex}, {unconditioned reflex}, {physiological reaction}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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