reflex phenomenon

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• Aschner reflex (phenomenon) — Asch·ner reflex (phenomenon) (ahshґnər) [Bernhard Aschner, Austrian gynecologist, 1883–1960] oculocardiac reflex …   Medical dictionary

• Erben reflex (phenomenon sign) — Er·ben (reflex (phenomenon, sign) (urґbən) [Siegmund Erben, Austrian neurologist, late 19th century] see under reflex …   Medical dictionary

• Reflex — A reaction that is involuntary. The corneal reflex is the blink that occurs with irritation of the eye. The nasal reflex is a sneeze. * * * 1. An involuntary reaction in response to a stimulus applied to the periphery and transmitted to the… …   Medical dictionary

• reflex hallucination —    Also known as reflex false perception and apperceptive hallucination. The German term Reflexhallucination was introduced in or shortly before 1866 by the German psychiatrist Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828 1899) to denote a hallucination arising in …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• Reflex, Babinski — An important neurologic test based, believe it or not, upon what the big toe does when the sole of the foot is stimulated. If the big toe goes up, that may mean trouble. The Babinski reflex is obtained by stimulating the external portion (the… …   Medical dictionary

• phenomenon — 1. A symptom; an occurrence of any sort, whether ordinary or extraordinary, in relation to a disease. 2. Any unusual fact or occurrence. [G. phainomenon, fr. phaino, to cause to appear] adhesion p. a p. manifested by the adherence of antigen… …   Medical dictionary

• Babinski reflex — An important neurologic test based, believe it or not, upon what the big toe does when the sole of the foot is stimulated. If the big toe goes up, that may mean trouble. The Babinski reflex is obtained by stimulating the external portion (the… …   Medical dictionary

• Photic sneeze reflex — is a genetic autosomal dominant trait, which causes sneezing when exposed suddenly to bright light, possibly many times consecutively. It is also referred to as photic sneeze response, sun sneezing, photogenic sneezing, the photosternutatory… …   Wikipedia

• Babinski phenomenon — A neurologic reflex that constitutes an important medical examination based upon what the big toe does when the sole of the foot is stroked. If the big toe goes up, that may mean trouble. The Babinski reflex is obtained by stimulating the… …   Medical dictionary

• Cushing reflex — (also referred to as the vasopressor response, the Cushing effect, the Cushing reaction, the Cushing phenomenon, the Cushing response, or Cushing s Law) is a physiological nervous system response to increased intracranial pressure (ICP) that… …   Wikipedia

• History of the single-lens reflex camera — The history of the single lens reflex camera predates the invention of photography in 1826/27 by one and a half centuries with the use of a reflex mirror in a camera obscura first described in 1676. Such SLR devices were popular as drawing aids… …   Wikipedia