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The hand movements were a result of nervous system feedback, the tongue of the creature was some how triggering involuntary muscle spasms.
But she watched her mother blink in surprise and take an involuntary step back away from her.
The main symptoms are muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, and involuntary tremor.
Her involuntary reflexes kicked in, and she threw out her arms, managing to break his fall.
The airways are surrounded by a type of involuntary muscle known as smooth muscle.
Muscle cramping is a painful, involuntary muscle spasm that regularly frustrates athletes.
Hiccups are the spasmodic, involuntary contraction of the diaphragm that is caused by irritation of the nerves that supply these muscles.
This smooth muscle is the involuntary sphincter of the posterior urethra in the male.
A whole folklore exists about the humiliations, petty vindictiveness, fights and resentments associated with involuntary communal living.
The condition, which affects 29,000 people in Britain, is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary twitches and vocal noises.
The risk is that what starts as voluntary euthanasia becomes extended to involuntary euthanasia.
She could see some one writhing amongst the dusky fabric and she felt herself retreat involuntary to the safety of her bed hangings.
In her case it has caused involuntary muscle spasms affecting her whole body.
Will just gave me a look of such utter wrath and betrayal that I took an involuntary step backwards as he strode towards me.
Formally, palilalia is a compulsive involuntary repetition of a semantically acceptable phrase or word.
Signs of the illness include involuntary movements called chorea, as well as motor and cognitive difficulties.
The three of us have formed an involuntary and immobile conga-line, like a trio of backpackers on a rush-hour commuter train.
Drugs called anti-convulsants, such as phenytoin and valproic acid, are used to stop the involuntary action of the diaphragm.
Prostitutes should sue pimps under the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, MacKinnon suggests.
Students pinioned his leg to prevent any involuntary movement when the surgeon cut into his flesh.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The membership in the Komsomol may be found to be involuntary and is on occasion found involuntary.
Though the night was summery, the chill of that involuntary bath was unpleasant.
Then yielding to an involuntary fit of sybaritism, I unhooked the bellows and tried to get the fire to burn.
That belief and unbelief are involuntary and without moral merit or demerit.
And even involuntary kindness, grudging kindness, doesn't bestow upon the donor the right to direct the affairs of the donee.
The most common form of psychic disturbance is involuntary clairaudience, and telaesthesia is not perhaps less general.
I have noticed that, every time we allow voluntary or involuntary movements, telekinetic movements are difficult to obtain.
Except for his involuntary service, for and against, in this Voltaire Journey, his name would not now be mentionable at all.
Happily the bergschrund was choked with snow, and we escaped with an involuntary slide.
The involuntary from their smooth, regular appearance under the microscope are called the unstriped or non-striated muscles.
The unstriped muscular fibre, more properly the fusiform-cell fibre, which carries on the involuntary internal movements.
These apparently are accounted for by involuntary eye-movements which take place regardless of the effort made to fixate vision.
As we ride through the scrub the whirr of the red-legged partridge sends an involuntary hand to the gun.
Which was doubtless an involuntary muscular affection incident on successful operations for lamellar or zonular cataract.
It was as though the involuntary kiss had lurched him forward into a futurity of misery.
As the reflex arc is intact there may be involuntary and unconscious micturition whenever the bladder fills.
As the man threw up his hands in an involuntary motion to shield his face, Johnny landed a haymaker square on his chin.
But Mr. Newcastle's involuntary wit was of no avail, and he was forced to curb his songful spirit until a more fitting season.
Glory's face blazed up, and she took an involuntary step to the woman's side at the warrantless accusation.
It is more vividly brought home to us from the nonprofessional, the disinterested and involuntary testimony of secular writing.
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