Such effects can be induced reflexly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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Pitt looked at it and his hand reflexly slapped across his open mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion]
That it influences the stomach reflexly by promoting the flow of gastric juice. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
But, I do seriously wonder why so many folks are reflexly adverse to any increase in the number of dedicated, instantly accessible hardware inputs. From Wordnik.com. [The OpenOffice Mouse - Boing Boing] Reference
Frank reminds me of the psychotic patient who, unable and unwilling to confront his own delusional system, reflexly asserts that it is everyone else who is out of touch with reality. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Since the direct maximal motor twitch compared with the standard reflex twitch can reveal the proportion of the whole muscle which the standard reflex twitch activates, we can find further what proportion of the whole muscle is reflexly inhibited. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Hence he acts against it reflexly, and in most cases explosively. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
Miss Barnet sprang reflexly from the harness of an eight-hour day. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
For example, when an object comes near the eye the lid flies to reflexly. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
We know that any physical expression of an emotion tends reflexly to produce that emotion. From Wordnik.com. [How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science] Reference
If a tap be made upon the knee while one sits with the legs crossed the foot flies up reflexly. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
So the animals, we are told, have come to do theirs reflexly, although at first they required intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
The muscles then contract reflexly, and pull the head of the bone into an unnatural position outside the capsule. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Race prejudice is a mechanism of the group mind which acts reflexly and automatically in response to its proper stimulus. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
This condition may be induced reflexly from irrigation of the trigeminal nerve, notably of branches that supply the nasal cavities and the teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
The little child gets its first mental experiences in connection with certain movements or acts set up reflexly by the pre-organized nervous system. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and Its Education] Reference
Almost reflexly I asked, "Where are the corpses?" and he immediately answered that he had hidden them in the environs of the city, where they were found. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
Besides the effect which prayer has in procuring specific petitions, it acts reflexly on the spirit of the person who offers it, calming, sweetening, invigorating. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion] Reference
Also, with the moving dumb-bell, as has been mentioned, the eye having begun a voluntary sweep would often be caught by the moving image and carried on thereafter reflexly with the pendulum. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
But decidedly the most interesting detail about the anæsthesia is that shown by the extreme liability of the eye to stop reflexly on the red or the green light, in the second experiment with the pendulum. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
If at any time during the experiments the eye is allowed to follow the pendulum reflexly, the image is at once and invariably seen to pass through its two phases as it swings past the nine-centimeter opening. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
Then, partly as a series of voluntary acts and partly reflexly, according as the student is more or less advanced, or the particular tone new or old in experience, do the various neuro-muscular arrangements pass into orderly action. From Wordnik.com. [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference
In advanced cases the Larnyx is usually much congested, being constantly irritated, not only reflexly through the nervous system, but directly by the inspired air, and excoriating discharges dropping in the throat from behind the palate. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Second, it has a hold, a grip on the motor mechanism of the body, on the muscles that produce action, so that the intelligence can nicely adapt movement to the circumstances, to purpose, and can inhibit the movements that arise reflexly. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
We also know that the sympathetic is the accelerator nerve of the heart, being opposed in its action by the vagus which, is inhibitory; further, that the vagus is constant in its brake-like action, while the sympathetic only acts when stimulated either directly or reflexly. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
The condition of the stomach is reflexly, if not by direct continuity through the mucous membrane, expressed in the throat generally; hence as experience shows, the voice-user cannot exercise too great care as to what and how much he eats, especially before a public appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference
It is not surprising, then, that in animals as highly organized reflexly as are many of the invertebrates, even though they should possess no other principle of action than that of specific response, the various life-activities should present an appearance of considerable intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
But unlike their Soviet predecessors, they’re not reflexly anti-American. From Wordnik.com. [So what do we call this? The ‘Warm War?’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
"Winternitz, many years ago, demonstrated that hot water taken into the stomach acts as a cardiac stimulant, and the increased heart's action is immediate, or at least before the water has time to absorb, which indicates that the water in the stomach acts reflexly as a cardiac stimulant. From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
You might refill it reflexly on one of the occasion:) If you refill it on the underground pond you should try to water around there to see your trick working or not (press triangle to see whether the amount of water decrease from 100 or not). From Wordnik.com. [Comments for Azure Flame] Reference
"Arterial pressure is affected reflexly BY STIMULATION OF ANY SENSORY. From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
"Bless you," Jesse said reflexly. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion]
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