30. How is it explained that a
person with the spinal cord
sectioned at the cervical level
is still able to perform the
patellar reflex?

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The arch reflex depends on the
integrity of fibers at a single
level. In the arch the motor
response to stimulus is automatic
and and does not depend
the passage of information the
brain. So it even if the spinal
is damaged at other .