Usually means: Muscle contraction response to stretch.
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  1. stretch reflex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. stretch reflex: Vocabulary.com
  3. stretch reflex: Dictionary.com
  4. Stretch reflex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. stretch reflex: Rhymezone
  6. stretch reflex: FreeDictionary.org
  7. stretch reflex: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. stretch reflex: Legal dictionary

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  1. Reflex, stretch, stretch reflex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretch reflex: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. Reflex, stretch, stretch reflex: Medical dictionary
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Stretch reflex)

▸ noun:  The stretch reflex (myotatic reflex), or more accurately "muscle stretch reflex", is a muscle contraction in response to stretching a muscle.


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