stressor
IPA: strˈɛsɝ
noun
- (psychology, biology) An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.
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Examples of "stressor" in Sentences
- One person's fun may be another person's stressor.
- A stressor can also be an event that provokes stress.
- This reduces the pressure of the stressor and enhances coping.
- A stressor may be viewed as a stimulus that disrupts homeostasis.
- Stressors include fear, quilt, regret, frustration and uncertainly.
- A solution is a solution until it breaks under a realistic stressor.
- For animals, the most stressful of all the abiotic stressors is heat.
- Each stressor will glow at a different wavelength that will be monitored.
- Disease is considered a physiological stressor that can result in fatigue.
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