autonomic

adjective

au·to·nom·ic ˌȯ-tə-ˈnä-mik

: acting or occurring involuntarily

autonomic reflexes

: relating to, affecting, or controlled by the autonomic nervous system or its effects or activity

autonomic drugs

autonomically

ˌȯ-tə-ˈnä-mi-k(ə-)lē

adverb

Examples of autonomic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This initially presents as an overall decrease in physical activity and later progresses to uncontrollable tremors and the loss of autonomic activities like breathing and heart function. —

IEEE Spectrum, 11 July 2023 Does the magic happen through autonomic stress reduction, having a place to meet people and get active, or just by seeing something beautiful every day? —

Aaron Reuben, Outside Online, 11 June 2019 Others are dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy and pure autonomic failure. —

The Conversation, oregonlive, 29 May 2023 The autonomic connection makes sense, because our hearts are under its jurisdiction. —

Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2019 There are several different types of neuropathy, with peripheral neuropathy and autonomic neuropathy being the most common. —

Elizabeth Woolley, Verywell Health, 28 May 2023 Poppy Crum, the neuroscientist who runs research at Dolby, has been working on all the ways that, for example, seeing images in really high dynamic ranges can trigger not just autonomic responses—like flushing from heat exposure after just seeing video of flames—but psychological ones too. —

Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Apr. 2021 The nerves on your cornea detect the presence of syn-propanethial-S-oxide and send the signal to your central nervous system (Fig 2), which then stimulate the autonomic nerve fibers on the lachrymal glands to produce tears [2] in order to dilute the syn-propanethial-S-oxide. —

Ashton Yoon, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2017 Stephens and his colleagues are already moving ahead with new experiments, this time shifting away from the autonomic arousal explanation for the effect to focus more on cognitive explanations—specifically looking at swearing as a possible form of disinhibition. —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 June 2020 See More

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