hyperreflexive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "It is velocity dependent, and there is a hyperreflexive tendon jerk. On the other hand, clinical rigidity is bidirectional, not velocity dependent, and there is no hyperreflexive tendon jerk."
- "Animal studies of cannabinoids reveal widely varying behavioral effects, but several appear consistently. One is a hyperreflexive response to specific stimuli accompanying the overall sedative effects."
- "The patellar reflex is typically normal or may appear hyperreflexive."
- "Not only are the reflex arcs functioning in the hind limbs despite the damage to the spinal cord at L1 to L2, but the reflex responses are hyperreflexive."
- "But Artaud describes certain strange transformations of facial awareness that one might imagine occurring under conditions of prolonged withdrawal and hyperreflexive contemplation — conditions in which the normally implicit and inner is extruded into a state of quasi-externality."
- "Secondly, however, as Sass (1998, 2000) suggests, metarepresentation and a certain degree of overmonitoring of experience can be generated in hyperreflexive experience, when processes that are ordinarily tacit (processes that I normally do not have to monitor explicitly or consciously) come to the subject's attention."