patellar reflex
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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
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
Facilitation of the patellar reflex or "knee jerk".
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
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 )
