startle reflex

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n.

The reflex response of an infant in which the limb and neck muscles contract when the infant is allowed to drop a short distance or is startled by a sudden noise or jolt.Moro's reflex parachute reflex

cochleopalpebral reflex

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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
Worry has become as automatic a reflex as breathing in your sleep.
The Israeli App Red Alert Saves Lives—but It Just Might Drive You Nuts|Itay Hod|July 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They startle viewers, rouse viewers, occasionally put off and occasionally turn on viewers.
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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.
My Patrol With the NYPD’s Bill Bratton|Michael Daly|March 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

He is quite a bundle of stimulus and reflex, with no reflection.
The Real Wolf of Wall Street: Jordan Belfort’s Vulgar Memoirs|Jimmy So|December 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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
The French women certainly talk with a freedom which would startle an English or American female.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
The striking originality of this idea will startle any one who has never heard of such a thing before.
The Autobiography of a Play|Bronson Howard
"You oughtn't to slip up an' s-startle a lady that-a-way," she said with grave rebuke, and Hale looked humbled.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine|John Fox, Jr.

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