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Definition of Areflexia
1. Noun. Absence of a reflex; a sign of possible nerve damage.
Definition of Areflexia
1. Noun. (medical) Lack of neuromuscular reflexes. A symptom associated with many neurological disorders. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Areflexia
1. Absence of reflexes. Detrusor areflexia, a failure of the detrusor muscle to have a reflex contraction even though the bladder has reached or exceeded its capacity. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Areflexia
Literary usage of Areflexia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"areflexia. 2. Neuralgia. 3. Ulceration and gangrene. 4. Pseudo tabes. 5.
Spinal cord disease. •L 6. Herpes zoster. 7. Peripheral neuritis. ..."
2. A Textbook of nervous diseases for students and practicing physicians: In by Robert Bing (1921)
"... account of the intimate relation between tonus and reflexes the pathogenesis
of this hyporeflexia and areflexia corresponds to that of ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... there is anesthesia and areflexia of the face of the same side, and of the
arm, trunk and leg of the opposite side; the disturbance of sensibility in ..."
4. Neurosyphilis by Elmer Ernest Southard, Harry Caesar Solomon (1917)
"Such involvement may lead to hyperre- flexia, hyporeflexia, or areflexia according
to the localization of the process. ..."
5. Psychiatric-neurologic Examination Methods: With Special Reference to the by August Wimmer (1919)
"... completely disappear, as it for instance often does in general paresis, remain
the same for some time (possibly atonic, now and then with areflexia). ..."
6. Clinical Medicine; Tuesday Clinics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1922)
"Coming, finally, to an interpretation of the nervous and mental symptoms in this
patient, I should like to refer briefly, first to the areflexia, and second ..."
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