S: (n) control ((physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc) "the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired"; "he had lost control of his sphincters"
S: (n) abdominal breathing (breathing in which most of the respiratory effort is done by the abdominal muscles) "abdominal breathing is practiced by singers"
S: (n) hyperventilation (an increased depth and rate of breathing greater than demanded by the body needs; can cause dizziness and tingling of the fingers and toes and chest pain if continued)
S: (n) snuffle, sniffle, snivel (the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested))
S: (n) wheeze (breathing with a husky or whistling sound)
S: (n) second wind (the return of relatively easy breathing after initial exhaustion during continuous exertion)
S: (n) respiration (a single complete act of breathing in and out) "thirty respirations per minute"
S: (n) breath (the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing) "he took a deep breath and dived into the pool"; "he was fighting to his last breath"
S: (n) gasp, pant (a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open) "she gave a gasp and fainted"
S: (n) puff, drag, pull (a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)) "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
S: (n) toke (a puff of a marijuana or hashish cigarette) "the boys took a few tokes on a joint"
S: (n) outercourse (sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration) "since pregnancy cannot happen if sperm are kept out of the vagina, outercourse is one method of birth control"
S: (n) safe sex (sexual activity (especially sexual intercourse) with the use of measures (such as latex condoms) to avoid the transmission of disease (especially AIDS))
S: (n) conception (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon)
S: (n) fornication (voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other)
S: (n) incest (sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child))
S: (n) pleasure (sexual gratification) "he took his pleasure of her"
S: (n) sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life (sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people) "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life"
S: (n) carnal abuse (any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse))
S: (n) coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes) "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
S: (n) assortative mating (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)
S: (n) monohybrid cross (hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas))
S: (n) reciprocal cross, reciprocal (hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype)
S: (n) testcross, test-cross (a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring)
S: (n) fetishism, fetichism (sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs))
S: (n) voyeurism (a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior)
S: (n) reaction, response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent) "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age"
S: (n) automatism (any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy))
S: (n) rebound (a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration) "he is still on the rebound from his wife's death"
S: (n) overreaction (an excessive reaction; a reaction with inappropriate emotional behavior)
S: (n) immune response, immune reaction, immunologic response (a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen)
S: (n) cell-mediated immune response (an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells)
S: (n) complement fixation (an immune response in which an antigen-antibody combination inactivates a complement (so it is unavailable to participate in a second antigen-antibody combination))
S: (n) tropism (an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source)
S: (n) Babinski, Babinski reflex, Babinski sign (extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons)
S: (n) yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy (an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom) "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy"
S: (n) electric shock, electrical shock, shock (a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body) "subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response"; "electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks"
S: (n) light reflex, pupillary reflex, miosis, myosis (reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller)
S: (n) mydriasis (reflex pupillary dilation as a muscle pulls the iris outward; occurs in response to a decrease in light or certain drugs)
S: (n) micturition reflex (relaxation of the urethral sphincter in response to increased pressure in the bladder)
S: (n) pharyngeal reflex, gag reflex (normal reflex consisting of retching; may be produced by touching the soft palate in the back of the mouth)
S: (n) plantar reflex (flexion of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front in persons over the age of 2 years; under 2 years the results should be extension of the toes (Babinski reflex))
S: (n) rooting reflex (reflex consisting of head-turning and sucking movements elicited in a normal infant by gently stroking the side of the mouth or cheek)
S: (n) startle response, startle reaction (a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise); involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions)
S: (n) startle reflex, Moro reflex (a normal reflex of young infants; a sudden loud noise causes the child to stretch out the arms and flex the legs)
S: (n) suckling reflex (reflex behavior in newborn mammals; includes finding and grasping the nipple in the mouth and sucking on it and swallowing the milk)
S: (n) hiccup, hiccough, singultus ((usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion) "how do you cure the hiccups?"
S: (n) passage, passing (a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another) "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
S: (n) answer (a nonverbal reaction) "his answer to any problem was to get drunk"; "their answer was to sue me"
S: (n) transfusion reaction (reaction of the body to a transfusion of blood that is not compatible with its own blood; an adverse reaction can range from fever and hives to renal failure and shock and death)
S: (n) crying, weeping, tears (the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)) "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"
S: (n) bed-wetting (enuresis during sleep; especially common in children (who usually outgrow it))
S: (n) overflow incontinence (urinary incontinence that occurs when the bladder is so full that it continually leaks urine; often attributable to a blocked urethra (e.g., due to prostate enlargement) or weak bladder muscles or nerve damage)
S: (n) stress incontinence (urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining)
S: (n) urge incontinence (urinary incontinence that is generally attributable to involuntary contracts of the bladder muscle resulting in an urgent need to urinate accompanied by a sudden loss of urine; most common in people over 60 years of age)
S: (n) menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow (the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause) "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
S: (n) menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea (abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged)