Hyperreflexive
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Involving overreaction in a reflex response. not-comparable
"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."
- 2 Tending toward abnormally high levels of introspection. not-comparable
"But Artaud describes certain strange transformations of facial awareness that one might imagine occurring under conditions of prolonged withdrawal and hyperreflexive contemplation — conditions in which the normally implicit and inner is extruded into a state of quasi-externality."
- 3 Having a bounded local distance of operators in a nested algebra or reflexive subspace not-comparable
"In contrast to the subspaces of all C-symmetric operators, we show that the subspaces of all skew-C symmetric operators are reflexive and even hyperreflexive with the constant #92;kappa(#92;Cˢ)#92;leqslant 3.."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From hyper- + reflexive.
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