physiological reaction

Questions about physiological reaction

What does physiological reaction mean?

physiological reaction means "an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus".

What is another word for physiological reaction?

Close synonyms include reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is physiological reaction a common word?

physiological reaction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.