Hyperreflexive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hyperreflexive is an adjective meaning (medicine) Involving overreaction in a reflex response.
Meaning
(medicine) Involving overreaction in a reflex response.
More Meanings
- Tending toward abnormally high levels of introspection.
- (mathematics) Having a bounded local distance of operators in a nested algebra or reflexive subspace
Example Sentences
The patellar reflex is typically normal or may appear hyperreflexive.
This hyperreflexive “turning backward” toward the self is incompatible with more spontaneous, world-directed forms of activity.
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hyperresponsive, overreactive, reflexive, hyperreactive, overresponsive, over-reactive.
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