patellar reflex
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of patellar reflex
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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What are the common names for: caries, myopia, missing patellar reflex?
From Time Magazine Archive
The most numerous and generally known are: dropping the eyelids, coughing, sneezing, swallowing, all involuntary actions against approaching or falling bodies; then again the patellar reflex and the kremaster reflex, etc.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
While the reflexes were being tested he volunteered the information that his left patellar reflex was very much stronger than the right.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
The patient suffers severely from neuritis, and there may be early loss of patellar reflex.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
Facilitation of the patellar reflex or "knee jerk".
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
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