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autonomic

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for autonomic.

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Our biowatch measures the autonomic nervous system to show how you are affected by stress all day, every day.

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Quick take

(neuroanatomy, neurology) Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of autonomic gathered in one view.

adjective

(neuroanatomy, neurology) Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.

adjective

(neurology) Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for autonomic.

adjective

(neuroanatomy, neurology) Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.

adjective

(neurology) Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.

Example sentences

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Our biowatch measures the autonomic nervous system to show how you are affected by stress all day, every day.

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From the perspective of the body, the autonomic nervous system is stress/anxiety, sleep/relaxation, and exercise.

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During his PhD he worked on systems and algorithms for autonomic and energy-efficient resource management.

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Create a autonomic new Flickr team to build a new consistent API and a UI that is actually nice and usable.

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It was a constant state of heightened autonomic response - fight or flight.

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It affects only your autonomic systems, eliminating the high heart rate and blood pressure, shaky hands, dry mouth, etc.

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I've been told it's autonomic failure, largely related to misfiring of the vagus nerve.

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The autonomic nervous system impacts every organ in the body.

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There's countless techniques in nearly every athletic sport about how to shut your brain down so that only your muscles and autonomic nervous system are doing the work.

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The process of switching is very illuminating about how our brain handles subconscious, autonomic tasks - much like how I imagine learning a new language is.

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If we are to design autonomic systems that are safer, better and as the article says, smarter, we need to put real thought into the unintended consequences.

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In my case my attacks turned out to be related to a disorder of the autonomic nervous system, which (among lots of other things) results in my response system overreacting to stimuli.

Quote examples

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Pretty much everyone I know with autonomic issues went through the "it's all in your head" phase of diagnosis before getting real answers.

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I remember medical journal articles (Am J Psychiatry, i believe) referring to it as "caffeinism" - since the mental-alertness benefits habituate, but not the autonomic stimulation.

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I'm not trying to do that "diagnose you over the Internet" thing, but did any of your doctors ever mention or look into autonomic nervous system issues?

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In the last regional ("autonomic") elections «Podemos» got a good number of votes, but far less than expected, while other more traditional new political parties took a good bite in each election.

Proper noun examples

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Autonomic computing automates the process through which the user can provision resources on-demand.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use autonomic in a sentence?

Our biowatch measures the autonomic nervous system to show how you are affected by stress all day, every day.

What does autonomic mean?

(neuroanatomy, neurology) Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.

What part of speech is autonomic?

autonomic is commonly used as adjective.