KROK 1 2016 – Question 148 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A passenger of a fixed-run taxi has a sudden and expressed attack of tachycardia. A doctor travelling by the same taxi has managed to slow down his heart rate by pressing upon the eyeballs and thus causing the following reflex:
- A. Dagnini-Aschner reflex
- B. Holtz’s reflex
- C. Frank-Starling mechanism
- D. Bainbridge reflex
- E. Hering-Breuer reflex
Hint
Consider which afferent input from the face or eye can reflexly raise vagal tone and slow the heart.
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