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knee-jerk • n. a sudden involuntary reflex kick caused by a blow on the tendon just below the knee. • adj. (of a response) automatic and unthinking: a knee-jerk reaction. ∎ (of a person) responding in this way: knee-jerk radicals.
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KNEE JERK, LEFT AND RIGHT.(MAIN)
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Knees and knee-jerk reactions
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Knee-jerk response of no tobacco tax is gutless
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Knee-jerk can work
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Pak asks India to avoid knee-jerk reactions to terror strikes.
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NSW: Knee jerk solutions not answer to country crime Carr
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knee-jerk
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English knee-jerk • n. a sudden involuntary reflex kick...of a response) automatic and unthinking: a knee-jerk reaction. ∎ (of a person) responding in this way: knee-jerk radicals. |
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knee-jerk reflex
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology knee-jerk reflex See stretch reflex . |
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jerk
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing jerk (jerk) n. the sudden contraction of a muscle in response to a nerve impulse. knee j. see patellar reflex . |
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reflexes
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...best-known reflexes is the tendon jerk reflex . When a tendon is tapped...twitch. An example is the ‘knee-jerk reflex’; a tap to the patellar...tendon (just below the front of the knee) causes a reflex twitch in the quadriceps... |
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quadriceps
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...above to the femur itself. Above the knee they curve in from the sides, accounting...the one that is tapped to elicit a knee-jerk reflex ). This in turn is attached...skeletal system .See also hip ; knee ; posture ; reflexes ; walking . |
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