Term: stretch reflex: reflex contraction of a muscle when an attached tendon is pulled; important in maintaining erect posture
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: skunk cabbage: deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: corkage: a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: associateship: the position of associate (as in an office or academy)
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: telekinesis: the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: head: a person who is in charge
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: pilgrimage: a journey to a sacred place
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: genus fothergilla: small genus of deciduous shrubs of the southeastern United States
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: overhand stitch: a stitch passing over an edge vertically
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: water: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
Broader: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus | Unrelated: reticule: a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries