rectal reflex

1. 1.

   normal response to the presence of feces in the rectum

   Synonymsdefecation reflex

   Broaderreflex

Questions about rectal reflex

What does rectal reflex mean?

rectal reflex means "normal response to the presence of feces in the rectum".

What is another word for rectal reflex?

Close synonyms include defecation 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 rectal reflex a common word?

rectal reflex 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.