snout reflex

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n.

A pouting or pursing of the lips that is caused by light tapping of the closed lips near the midline, seen in defective pyramidal innervation of facial musculature.

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But when a serial sex predator is playing fanboy, the gag reflex kicks in.
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Worry has become as automatic a reflex as breathing in your sleep.
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Then came the moment when a reflex born of a lifetime with a badge caused him to check the door window at the end of the car.
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He is quite a bundle of stimulus and reflex, with no reflection.
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As his grizzled snout suggests, Orlando is 11 years old, which translates to 77 in dog years.
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Even if I were to be shot, the reflex action of my fingers would pull the trigger of this revolver and McGinty will die.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The reflex excitability is lowered and the sensibility diminished.
A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy|Alexander Hughes Bennett
Had the automatic snout poking through the steel grille of the rear of the cage.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Despite the speed of his dive, they were gaining on him, coming up fast; one snout that ended in a cupped depression was plain.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
With a roast apple in his snout, and a ribbon—a blue—no, a pink ribbon decorating his ornery little tail.
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