hyperreflexia
noun
hyperreflexia is a noun meaning “Overactive or overresponsive reflexes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-R-E-F-L-E-X-I-A, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperreflexia is hyperreflexias.
What does hyperreflexia mean?
noun
- 1
Overactive or overresponsive reflexes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperreflexia
- hyperreflexias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperreflexia?
Hyperreflexia appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hyperreflexia come from?
From hyper- + reflex + -ia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).