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 majorly acute stressor which is his mom passing.
- 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.
- Long after the "stressor" is removed, the ACOA lives as if it is still present.
- So, that was pretty much expected that there would be some kind of stressor like that.
- "It's a long-term stressor, the damage is done even if it's capped," Dr. Johnson explained.
- While you shouldn't deny yourself natural grieving moments, learning to direct your attention away from the stressor is a powerful coping mechanism.
- An ice storm isn't the same kind of stressor that people encounter in everyday life, and the women in the ice-storm study don't necessarily represent all women.
- Under the guidelines of the current review, soldiers who cannot prove that a specific incident, known as a "stressor," was sufficient to cause PTSD, their benefits will be revoked.
- The only accepted measure of the presence or absence of a stressor is the blood level of adrenal corticosteroids which becomes raised during stress which effects the peristaltic movement of the gut and the production of mucus within the gut.