They show the anatomical basis of an unconditioned reflex, the gill withdrawal reflex, and suggest the mechanism of a fixed action pattern.

MDT categorizes patients' complaints not on an anatomical basis, but subgroups them by the clinical presentation of patients.

The persistent vegetative state, defined in part as one in which a patient cannot be aroused, raises fundamental questions about the anatomical basis of human consciousness.

Kinesiology, the study of the anatomical and mechanical basis of movement, is also studied by those training to be canine massage therapists.

However, several authors argue that there is no anatomical basis for this.

However, the concept that this mucus layer might form a 'mucoid plaque' has been dismissed by physicians as having no anatomical or physiological basis.

An anthropologist at Rutgers University thinks he has found the most likely anatomical basis for this distinctive facial characteristic.

In our own century more than one Nobel prize has been given to scientists who have investigated the anatomical basis of perception.

He concludes it is unlikely that differences were purely linguistic and suggests that they have an anatomical basis in the evolution of the perceptual system.

Triads form the anatomical basis of excitation-contraction coupling, whereby a stimulus excites the muscle and causes it to contract.