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Areflexia

Areflexia (areflexia; and - – otritsa. the lat is frequent +. reflexus – reflected) – lack of one or several reflexes. The areflexia is caused by disturbances of integrity of a reflex arc or the braking influence of higher parts of the nervous system.

 
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In the aspiration to pull out the patient, doctors often go too far. So, for example, a certain Charles Janszen during the period from 1954 to 1994 endured more than 900 operations on removal of new growths.