patellar reflex

American  

noun

1. knee jerk.

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Etymology

Origin of patellar reflex

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

What are the common names for: caries, myopia, missing patellar reflex?

From Time Magazine Archive

The left plantar reflex was absent, the right slight, the left patellar reflex was abnormally brisk.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry

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 )

Persons using these preparations may suffer from catarrhal symptoms, rashes on the neck, ears, and face, thirst, nausea, pain in stomach, vomiting, headache, perhaps peripheral neuritis and loss of patellar reflex.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )

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