reflex Definition

reflected heat, light, or color

a mirrored image

a copy exact in essential or peculiar features

directed back on the mind or its operations : introspective

reflexed

produced or carried out in reaction, resistance, or return

the complete nervous path involved in a reflex

a painful disorder that usually follows a localized injury, that is marked by burning pain, swelling, and motor and sensory disturbances especially of an extremity, and that is often considered a type of complex regional pain syndrome in which peripheral nerve injury has not been identified —abbreviation RSD

a reflex movement in which when the sole is tickled the big toe turns upward instead of downward and which is normal in infancy but indicates damage to the central nervous system (as in the pyramidal tracts) later in life

a camera having a single lens that forms an image which is reflected to the viewfinder or recorded on film