patellar reflex

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From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Facilitation of the patellar reflex or "knee jerk".

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

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 )