accommodation reflex

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The coordinated changes that occur in the eye when viewing a near object, including constriction of the pupil, convergence of the eyes, and increased convexity of the lens.

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How to use accommodation reflex in a sentence

But when a serial sex predator is playing fanboy, the gag reflex kicks in.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But requiring a private business to provide equal accommodation to all Americans, including the gay ones?
Refusing to Marry Same-Sex Couples Isn’t Religious Freedom, It’s Just Discrimination|Sally Kohn|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Bone, when we routed him out, could not promise us any more accommodation than he had so kindly given us the first night.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire|H.L. Mencken|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There could be no accommodation of that guy—in terms of human behavior and the rules of Italian-American organized crime.
David Chase on Tony Soprano’s Fate, the State of TV, and Why He Couldn’t Finish ‘True Detective’|Marlow Stern|September 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Perhaps this is part of why they have become so accomplished at a certain kind of disability accommodation.
Disney World Means Everything to a Special Needs Mom|Elizabeth Picciuto|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In ordinary times fares ranged from ₱50 saloon accommodation to ₱8 a deck passage.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Accommodation was cheap, manners were easy, and knowledge of the gay city less than rudimentary.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Nicolas Amati did not introduce it, his work being of the kind that had no accommodation, or sufficient surface for it.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick
The outcome of the wrangle was a purely personal accommodation of an essentially momentary character.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
In Guernsey, however, Cuckoos are much too numerous for the Hedgesparrow to afford accommodation for them all.
Birds of Guernsey (1879)|Cecil Smith