hyperreflexive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + reflexive.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012, Robert J. Person, Roger Thies, Physiology, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Animal studies of cannabinoids reveal widely varying behavioral effects, but several appear consistently. One is a hyperreflexive response to specific stimuli accompanying the overall sedative effects.
ref: 2013, Mark S. Gold, Marijuana, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The patellar reflex is typically normal or may appear hyperreflexive.
ref: 2013 -, Curtis W. Dewey, A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology, →ISBN, page 389:
text: Not only are the reflex arcs functioning in the hind limbs despite the damage to the spinal cord at L1 to L2, but the reflex responses are hyperreflexive.
ref: 2015, Thomas P. Colville, Joanna M. Bassert, Clinical Anatomy and Physiology for Veterinary Technicians, →ISBN, page 250:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Involving overreaction in a reflex response.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2000, Dan Zahavi, Exploring the Self, →ISBN, page 171:
text: Secondly, however, as Sass (1998, 2000) suggests, metarepresentation and a certain degree of overmonitoring of experience can be generated in hyperreflexive experience, when processes that are ordinarily tacit (processes that I normally do not have to monitor explicitly or consciously) come to the subject's attention.
ref: 2003, Tilo Kircher, Anthony David, The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry, →ISBN, page 350:
text: The passage describes a lived face that, under conditions of hyperreflexive awareness and diminished self-affection, seems to be turned inside out, flattened and extruded until it becomes a kind of fluid mask — a fragile lived membrane of squirming sensitivity and kaleidoscopic pattern that seems to lift off from his head to float independently in the air.
ref: 2004, Shaun Gallagher, Stephen Watson, Philippe Brun, Ipseity and alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity, →ISBN, page 87:
text: This hyperreflexive “turning backward” toward the self is incompatible with more spontaneous, world-directed forms of activity.
ref: 2013, KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, →ISBN, page v:
glosses: Tending toward abnormally high levels of introspection.
examples: text: 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..
ref: 2016, Chafiq Benhida, Kamila Kliś-Garlicka, Marek Ptak, “Skew-symmetric operators and reflexivity”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a bounded local distance of operators in a nested algebra or reflexive subspace