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Some develop it reflexly from high blood pressure and it is probable that all hyper-thyroids are sensitive to the vagus nerve.
From Time Magazine Archive
Emesis may be caused both by local nervous influence, and through the central nervous mechanism either reflexly or from the direct action of substances circulating in the blood.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
Thus flexion of the leg can occur voluntarily as well as reflexly.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
We know that any physical expression of an emotion tends reflexly to produce that emotion.
From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher
These and similar actions are entirely possible, although the continuity between spinal marrow and brain may have been so interrupted by some accident that sensation in the reflexly active part fails altogether.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
