How to Use autonomic in a Sentence

autonomic

adjective

• This response was almost autonomic; like watching the leg of a dead frog kick when an electric current runs through its corpse.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
• In these cases, the primitive part of our brain designed to protect us in the wild kicks in and our autonomic response is to recklessly fire back.
  — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2019
• Sensory nerves and the autonomic nervous system are usually spared so that most with the disease can hear, see, touch, smell and taste.
  — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The brain’s function is autonomic so there is nothing to assemble here.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2019
• The coronavirus may be able to cross the blood-brain barrier, causing autonomic changes such as shortness of breath, sweating and rapid heart rate, researchers said.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2021
• The singer did not reveal details of her latest health issues, but Knowles in 2017 did open up about dealing with an autonomic disorder.
  — Chloe Melas, CNN, 3 Mar. 2021
• The nerves of the autonomic nervous systems can be severely damaged.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• BChE is an enzyme of the cholinergic system, part of the autonomic system, which controls functions like blood pressure and breathing.
  — Katherine Dillinger and Jen Christensen, CNN, 13 May 2022
• The Republican Party is shot through now with an impulse to disunion that is almost an autonomic reflex at this point.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Aug. 2012
• Many people are familiar with the numbness and pain of the feet and sometimes hands that can happen with longstanding diabetes, but the autonomic system can be affected as well.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 May 2022
• In some studies, CBD was shown to decrease autonomic arousal - the nervous system response that involves an increased heartbeat, sweating and trembling.
  — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Other studies since then have demonstrated that just looking at pictures of natural scenes can change the way a person’s autonomic nervous system responds to stress.
  — Richard Taylor, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
• In medical speak, cluster headaches are a type of trigeminal autonomic cephalgia.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 17 Dec. 2017
• Thompson announced in May 2019 he had been diagnosed with an autonomic nerve disorder.
  — Steve Megargee, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• Does the magic happen through autonomic stress reduction, having a place to meet people and get active, or just by seeing something beautiful every day?
  — Aaron Reuben, Outside Online, 11 June 2019
• Also known as the SPG, these nerves help control autonomic (i.e., involuntary) functions like breathing.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 25 Jan. 2018
• The autonomic nervous system jump-starts the sympathetic nervous system and accelerates the fight-or-flight response.
  — Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 18 July 2017
• The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary functions of your body, like your heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and digestion.
  — Kira Peikoff, Cosmopolitan, 9 Jan. 2015
• The autonomic connection makes sense, because our hearts are under its jurisdiction.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2019
• Telles helped conduct a study published in 1998 that measured autonomic changes while mentally repeating two syllables — one meaningful and the other neutral.
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2021
• The feel of slime even elicits autonomic psychophysiological effects (which are subconscious changes in the body related to the person’s emotional state).
  — Coren Walters-Stewart, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
• Doctors proposed the man must have possessed unusual electrical connections in his heart, along with some kind of autonomic nervous disturbance related to his quadriplegia.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• It's related to the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the balance between its branches - the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
  — NOLA.com, 9 June 2017
• In one, a region called the hypothalamus, the information informs the body’s autonomic thermal responses.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2015
• All of these neurological changes impact the whole body, including our autonomic, metabolic and immune systems.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 23 June 2022
• When the autonomic nerves aren't working properly, this can cause symptoms like lightheadedness, brain fog, fainting, an abnormally fast heart rate when standing up, gastrointestinal problems, and more.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2021
• Preliminary observations were yielding more data to support the theories about the role that breathing issues and autonomic dysfunction played for some patients.
  — Meghan O'Rourke, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2021
• This initially presents as an overall decrease in physical activity and later progresses to uncontrollable tremors and the loss of autonomic activities like breathing and heart function.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 July 2023
• There was the matter, too, of financial conflicts and nepotism, an autonomic reflex of aspiring authoritarians.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• But disruptions to your autonomic nervous system (which also controls other unconscious behaviors like breathing in addition to your heartbeat), like an acute infection or cancer, can affect HRV.
  — Jessica Migala, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024