First Header Logo Second Header Logo

Reflex, Abdominal

"Reflex, Abdominal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Contractions of the abdominal muscles upon stimulation of the skin (superficial abdominal reflex) or tapping neighboring bony structures (deep abdominal reflex). The superficial reflex may be weak or absent, for example, after a stroke, a sign of upper (suprasegmental) motor neuron lesions. (Stedman, 25th ed & Best & Taylor's Physiological Basis of Medical Practice, 12th ed, p1073)


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Reflex, Abdominal" by people in this website by year, and whether "Reflex, Abdominal" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
_