hyporeflexive

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adjective

Involving underreaction in a reflex response.

Scrabble 34

Meanings

adjectivehyporeflexive (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemedicineInvolving underreaction in a reflex response.

    Sleeping infants are usually flaccid and hyporeflexive.

    1985, Anne Marie Dazé, John W. Scanlon, Neonatal Nursing: A Practical Guide, page 94
    2 more examples

    Nevertheless, these two cases did have subconjunctival filtration (according to the UBM examinations, visible as a hyporeflexive subconjunctival layer) (Fig.2).

    2005, Steve M. Reece, Focus on Glaucoma Research, →ISBN, page 204

    In a LMN injury, deep tendon reflexes become hyporeflexive—because the reflex arc is lost.

    2008, Sharon A. Gutman, Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals, →ISBN
  2. not comparablemathematicsPertaining to an algebra W such that W = W′ ∩ Alg LatW.

    In the present paper it will be shown that power partial isometries are always hyporeflexive and 2--hyperreflexive.

    2016, Kamila Piwowarczyk, Marek Ptak, “2--hyperreflexivity and hyporeflexivity of power partial isometries”, in arXiv

Origin

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