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stance reflex

stance reflex

1. the automatic activity of skeletal muscle in maintaining the stability of the standing posture.

2. any automatic response that maintains a special standing posture, such as the stance reflexes of a sow in estrus that maintain the animal with its back arched and its body rigid.

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