Definition of autonomic
1 : acting or occurring involuntarily autonomic reflexes
2 : relating to, affecting, or controlled by the autonomic nervous system or its effects or activity autonomic drugs
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Recent Examples of autonomic from the Web
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Sensory nerves and the autonomic nervous system are usually spared so that most with the disease can hear, see, touch, smell and taste.
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There was the matter, too, of financial conflicts and nepotism, an autonomic reflex of aspiring authoritarians.
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The condition causes complications with joints and skin, such as dysautonomia, a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, which regulates heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, respiration, digestion, and other vital functions.
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In one, a region called the hypothalamus, the information informs the body’s autonomic thermal responses.
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The Republican Party is shot through now with an impulse to disunion that is almost an autonomic reflex at this point.
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First Known Use of autonomic
1888
Medical Dictionary
autonomic
playMedical Definition of autonomic
1a: acting or occurring involuntarily autonomic reflexesb: relating to, affecting, or controlled by the autonomic nervous system autonomic ganglia autonomic dysfunction
2: having an effect upon tissue supplied by the autonomic nervous system autonomic drugs
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