The pancreas for example secretes insulin( a hormone) directly into the blood in response to the blood glucose level. Lastly, a seizure is a type of involuntary movement. Seizures like a grand mal seizure is a storm of electrical activity in the brain that causes uncontrollable muscular movements.
The noun DAMPER BLOCK has 1 sense: 1. damper consisting of a small felted block that drops onto a piano string to stop its vibration. Familiarity information: DAMPER BLOCK used as a noun is very rare.
This is also the method most stock dampers use to control vibrations. The rubber is melted in between the inner and outer metal rings of a stock damper, which is tuned to work best at passenger car rpm levels. In high-rpm race applications, the stock damper usually does a poor job of counteracting harmonic vibrations.