Usually means: Involuntary, rapid responses to stimuli.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word reflexes:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflexes: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reflexes: Merriam-Webster
  3. reflexes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reflexes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reflexes: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reflexes, reflexes: Wordnik
  7. reflexes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reflexes: Wiktionary
  9. reflexes: Dictionary.com
  10. reflexes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Reflexes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. reflexes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reflexes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reflexes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reflexes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Reflexes: Merck Manuals
  3. reflexes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See reflex as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (reflex)

noun:  An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
noun:  (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
noun:  (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
noun:  The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
noun:  (chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
adjective:  Bent, turned back or reflected.
adjective:  Produced automatically by a stimulus.
adjective:  (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
adjective:  (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
verb:  (transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
verb:  To respond to a stimulus.
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