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hyporeflexive

hyporeflexive adjective: involving underreaction in a reflex response.

Adjective

hyporeflexive (not comparable)

  1. Involving 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
    • 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
  2. Pertaining 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 of hyporeflexive

From hypo- + reflexive.

Questions about hyporeflexive

What does hyporeflexive mean?
Hyporeflexive means involving underreaction in a reflex response.
What part of speech is hyporeflexive?
Hyporeflexive is an adjective.

Words near hyporeflexive in the dictionary

  1. hyporeflections
  2. hyporeflective
  3. hyporeflectivities
  4. hyporeflectivity
  5. hyporeflexia
  6. hyporeflexive
  7. hyporeflexivity
  8. hyporegenerative
  9. hyporegulate
  10. hyporegulation
  11. hyporegulator

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