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involuntary action

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involuntary action

Behaviour not under conscious control, for example the contractions of the gut during peristalsis or the secretion of adrenaline by the adrenal glands. Breathing and urination reflexes are involuntary, although both can be controlled voluntarily to some extent. These processes are regulated by the autonomic nervous system.



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Meanwhile Katharine and Rodney drew further ahead, and Denham kept, if that is the right expression for an involuntary action, one filament of his mind upon them, while with the rest of his intelligence he sought to understand what Sandys was saying.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
The young forehead lifted itself into that singular expression--but it was pretty and characteristic, besides being singular--and she raised her hand, as if with an involuntary action she caught at, or stayed some passing shadow.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
What her lips, therefore, concealed, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions, betrayed.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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