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Definition of Defecation reflex

1. Noun. Normal response to the presence of feces in the rectum.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Defecation Reflex

Literary usage of Defecation reflex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"As an example, trace a defecation reflex. defecation reflex.-—The rectum is supplied by the third and fourth sacral nerves and by branches of the inferior ..."

2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"On the other hand, Pancoast and Hopkins, 1915, observed the main delay in the small intestines; but little in the colon; the defecation-reflex was not ..."

3. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"The loss of the defecation reflex is shown by the fact that the patient never experiences a desire to defalcate, even when examination shows that the rectum ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1908)
"The adult human defecation reflex :s largely dependent on habit for its function. When a sensory stimulus is habitually answered in a certain way, ..."

5. Materia Medica: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing for by Walter Arthur Bastedo (1918)
"... itself to the presence of a fecal accumulation, so that if the desire is not responded to, it will pass away and the defecation reflex become impaired. ..."

6. The Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Alimentary Canal by Russell Daniel Carman (1920)
"... weakness of the defecation reflex (tabes), hysteria, hard and bulky feces, functional and organic strictures of the anal canal and sphincter, ..."

7. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... masses may reach the sigmoid and even fill up the ampulla of the rectum, without exciting expulsion, owing to abnormalities of the defecation reflex ..."

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