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hypo- +‎ reflexive

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hyporeflexive (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Involving underreaction in a reflex response.
    • 1985, Anne Marie Dazé, John W. Scanlon, Neonatal Nursing: A Practical Guide, page 94:
      Sleeping infants are usually flaccid and hyporeflexive.
    • 2005, Steve M. Reece, Focus on Glaucoma Research, →ISBN, page 204:
      Nevertheless, these two cases did have subconjunctival filtration (according to the UBM examinations, visible as a hyporeflexive subconjunctival layer) (Fig.2).
    • 2008, Sharon A. Gutman, Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals, →ISBN:
      In a LMN injury, deep tendon reflexes become hyporeflexive—because the reflex arc is lost.
  2. (mathematics) Pertaining to an algebra W such that W = W′ ∩ Alg LatW.
    • 2016, Kamila Piwowarczyk, Marek Ptak, “ --hyperreflexivity and hyporeflexivity of power partial isometries”, in arXiv[1]:
      In the present paper it will be shown that power partial isometries are always hyporeflexive and  --hyperreflexive.

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