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 equation of a horizontal line is y = b where b is the y-intercept. Since the slope of a horizontal line is 0, the general formula for the standard form equation , y = mx + b becomes y = 0x +b y = b. Also,since the line is horizontal, every point on that line has the exact same y value. This y-value is therefore also the y-intercept.