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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for reflex action:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

reflex action
    n 1: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
         [syn: reflex, reflex response, reflex action,
         instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex,
         unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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            The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the
            intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir
                                                  M. Hale.
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   2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
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   3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or
      excitation without the necessary intervention of
      consciousness.
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   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.
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