Jaw-working reflex

Not painful, cause I can handle pain, but very uncomfortable, which is hard to handle mentally. I have a very strong gag reflex, so the string down the esophageal may be very uncomfortable for me. The capsule would be cool as it goes thru my whole GI tract while giving data. Talking ...

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... the physician tests for the presence of touch sensation on the soft palate and the back of the throat (the latter usually eliciting a gagging reflex), the elevation of the palate on phonation (which should be symmetrical but rises to the stronger side in the presence of weakness on one... ...

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I would definitely say that the withdrawl reflex is a somatic reflex. there is no situation I can think of when the autonomic nervous system would control skeletal muscles.

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... a nice example to the activity of the autonomic nervous system. I'm more confused about involuntary skeletal muscle contraction during withdrawal reflex. That I would say is also an autonomic innervation (called reflex). So is it possible that autonomic nervous system controls skeletal muscles, ...

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... over autonomic processes, because we define them like that. Now, you must understand that in order to have voluntary control over something, the reflex controlling that something must close on the cortex - if it closes anywhere before that, you can't control it. For example, the patellar reflex ...

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