patellar reflex

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From Time Magazine Archive

The left plantar reflex was absent, the right slight, the left patellar reflex was abnormally brisk.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry

Facilitation of the patellar reflex or "knee jerk".

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

While the reflexes were being tested he volunteered the information that his left patellar reflex was very much stronger than the right.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

The most numerous and generally known are: dropping the eyelids, coughing, sneezing, swallowing, all involuntary actions against approaching or falling bodies; then again the patellar reflex and the kremaster reflex, etc.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf