Hyporeflexia occurs when normal reflexes are weak but not absent. Explain how this condition could be due to damage to skeletal muscles, a sensory neuron, or a motor neuron.

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Katrina Edwards

5 October, 02:25

Hyporeflexia occurs when normal reflexes are weak but not absent. Explain how this condition could be due to damage to skeletal muscles, a sensory neuron, or a motor neuron.

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Mia · Answer 1

The correct answer is motor neuron.

Explanation:

Hyporeflexia is a physiological abnormality that deals with the presence of weak reflexes.

Hyporeflexia is caused due to damage or lack of alpha motor neurons which are multipolar in nature and they belongs to the family of somatic nervous system.

There are also other causes associated with hyporeflexia those include disturbance in the ionic balance, less secretion of T3 and T4 from the thyroid gland and sideeffects of various drugs such as benzodiazepine.