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reflex action
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reflex action has 1 sense
- reflex action(n = noun.act) inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex response, unconditioned reflex - an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus; Array has particulars: accommodation reflex, babinski, babinski reflex, babinski sign, belch, belching, burp, burping, eructation, blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking, blush, flush, disgorgement, emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting, defecation reflex, rectal reflex, oscitance, oscitancy, yawn, yawning, electric shock, electrical shock, shock, breaking wind, fart, farting, flatus, wind, gulp, gulping, knee-jerk reflex, knee jerk, patellar reflex, light reflex, miosis, myosis, pupillary reflex, mydriasis, micturition reflex, gag reflex, pharyngeal reflex, goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex, plantar reflex, rooting reflex, jump, start, startle, myotactic reflex, stretch reflex, suckling reflex, shake, shiver, tremble, sneeze, sneezing, sternutation, hiccough, hiccup, singultus
is a kind of reaction, response
THESAURUS
reflex action
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
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