knee-jerk reaction. Fig. an automatic or reflex reaction; an immediate reaction made without examining causes or facts. With one of his typical knee-jerk reactions, he said no immediately, citing some moral argument that no one understood. See also: reaction.
What did you see when the patients head was rolled to the opposite side? In horizontal canal BPPV, you should have seen a direction change. When the horizontal nystagmus is geotropic, the BPPV is suspected to be canalithiasis, occurring on the side with the more intense nystagmus.
The geothermal gradient is the rate at which the temperature. of the Earth's interior increases with increasing depth. Average geothermal gradient: Continental areas away from. tectonically active zones have. average geothermal gradients. The geotherm never reaches the. solidus (melting point) of the.