Example sentences for: reflexes

How can you use “reflexes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Much of Chomskyan grammar is very boring and mechanistic, with its transformational rules and deterministic reflexes.

  • There is no doubt that this one is here to stay--at least for a while--if its reflexes elsewhere ( Kein Problem, Pas de probléme, etc.) are any indication.

  • Most of them are highly skillful — they have to be — and proud of their reflexes.

  • It is fascinating just watching the monied clientele in these places, not to mention the lightning reflexes of the croupiers, particularly as they scoop away the unfortunate bettors’ gaming chips.

  • Capsaicin's use in the treatment of chronic pain is due to an analgesic effect that is explained by capsaicin's action of depletion of stores of substance P from primary sensory neurons as a consequence of the reduced production of prostaglandin [ 39 60 ] . Capsaicin's antiphlogistic activity is due to the "counter-irritant effect"; which means that a local irritant effect exerts an additional more remote antiinflammatory effect [ 60 ] . This is explained by a liberation of corticoids under the influence of certain cutivisceral reflexes [ 60 ] . The counter-irritant effect on the gastric mucosa also occurs because capsaicin stimulates production of the cytoprotective prostaglandin E 2 [ 60 ] . Capsaicin produces analgesic and antiinflammatory effects because it inhibits both 5-lipoxygenase and cycoloxygenase [ 39 ] . A 10 g human ingestion of red pepper stimulated carbohydrate oxidation [ 62 ] . This may explain why the Chocó Indians used it to give their hunting dogs more "energy" [ 25 ] .


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