Another Word For STRESSOR
stress
Noun : (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
Noun : (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
Noun : (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
aggressor
Noun : The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
Noun : a fictional state created by the United States Army for maneuver and military exercise purposes in the 1950's
Noun : a citizen/subject of the fictional Aggressor state
controllability
Noun : The quality or extent of being controllable; controllableness.
activator
Noun : One who, or that which, activates.
Noun : (chemistry) Something that activates a catalyst
Noun : (biology) Any chemical or agent which regulates one or more genes by increasing the rate of transcription.
trigger
Noun : (firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
Noun : A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
Noun : An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
bullies
Noun : A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
Noun : A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
Noun : A hired thug.
precipitating
Verb : (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
Verb : (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
Verb : (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
stresses
Noun : (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
Noun : (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
Noun : (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
triggers
Noun : (firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
Noun : A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
Noun : An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
stressfulness
Noun : The state or condition of being stressful.
eustress
Noun : (psychology) A healthful, stimulating kind and level of stress.
stressful
Adjective : Irritating; causing stress.
Adjective : (of a task) Mentally taxing.
toxicant
Noun : A toxic or poisonous substance.
cortisol
Noun : (biochemistry, steroids) A glucocorticoid steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that mediates various metabolic processes (such as gluconeogenesis), has anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties, and whose levels in the blood may become elevated in response to physical or psychological stress. When used medicinally it is known as hydrocortisone.
physiological
Adjective : Of, or relating to physiology.
Adjective : Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.
hormetic
Adjective : (biology) Of or pertaining to hormesis or to a hormetin
precipitant
Noun : Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
Noun : (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
allostatic
Adjective : relating to allostasis
anxiety
Noun : An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
Noun : An uneasy or distressing desire (for something).
Noun : (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.
stimuli
Noun : An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour.
Noun : (physiology, psychology, medicine) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response, or that affects any of the sensory apparatuses.
Noun : (botany, entomology) A sting on the body of a plant or insect.
hyperarousal
Noun : A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue.
psychophysiological
Adjective : Of or pertaining to psychophysiology
psychosocial
Adjective : (of behaviour) Having both psychological and social aspects.
adaptational
Adjective : Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment of one thing to another; adaptive
Adjective : (biology) Applied to physiological or functional modifications of parts or organs, as distinguished from morphological or structural changes.
sublethal
Adjective : Less than lethal.
neuroimmune
Adjective : (immunology) Describing those components of the nervous system that modulate the immune response
trauma
Noun : Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
Noun : An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
Noun : An event that causes great distress.
nitrosative
Adjective : Relating to the oxides of nitrogen
aversiveness
Noun : Quality or degree of being aversive.
maladaptation
Noun : (evolutionary theory or psychology) The state of being poorly adapted to an environment
abiotic
Adjective : Nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter.
Adjective : Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life.
physiologic
Adjective : Of or pertaining to physiology.
distracter
Noun : That which distracts, or serves as a distraction.
Noun : Any of the incorrect answers in a multiple-choice question, serving to distract from the correct answer.
nonstress
Noun : The absence of stress.
psychological
Adjective : Of or pertaining to psychology.
Adjective : Relating to the mind and behavior or to the mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
Adjective : Without an objective, or reasonably logical foundation.
traumatic
Adjective : Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
Adjective : (medicine, dated) Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
Adjective : (dated) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
neurochemical
Adjective : Of or pertaining to neurochemistry, the study of the chemical basis of nerve and brain activity
oxidative
Adjective : (chemistry) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
nonstressed
Adjective : unstressed
pathogen
Noun : (pathology, immunology) Any organism or substance, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or fungi. Microorganisms are not considered to be pathogenic until they have reached a population size that is large enough to cause disease.
hypoxia
Noun : (pathology) A condition in which tissues (especially the blood) are deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen; anoxia
Noun : A reduced concentration of dissolved oxygen in an aquatic environment.
distress
Noun : Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Noun : A cause of such discomfort.
Noun : Serious danger.
anthropogenic
Adjective : Pertaining to the origin of man, or anthropogeny.
Adjective : Having its origin in the influence of human activity on nature.
pollutant
Noun : A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
psychophysiologic
Adjective : Alternative form of psychophysiological [Of or pertaining to psychophysiology]
precipitants
Noun : Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
Noun : (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
allostasis
Noun : The process of achieving stability, or homeostasis, in the body, through physiological or behavioral change.
counterregulatory
Adjective : (physiology) That counters a regulatory process, especially the action of a hormone
oxidant
Noun : an oxidizing agent
perturbation
Noun : (uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed
Noun : (countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system)
Noun : (countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies
corticosterone
Noun : (biochemistry, steroids) A corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.
catecholamine
Noun : (biochemistry) Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland.
stimulus
Noun : An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour.
Noun : (physiology, psychology, medicine) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response, or that affects any of the sensory apparatuses.
Noun : (botany, entomology) A sting on the body of a plant or insect.
aversive
Adjective : Tending to repel; causing avoidance.
contaminant
Noun : That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
biobehavioral
Adjective : Pertaining to the biological causes of behavior.
xenobiotic
Noun : (biology) Any foreign compound not produced by an organism's metabolism.
toxicants
Noun : A toxic or poisonous substance.
depressogenic
Noun : Any material that causes depression.
footshock
Noun : (biology) A mild electric shock administered to the feet of laboratory animals during a variety of psychological and other experiments
burnout
Noun : (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
Noun : A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
Noun : (US, slang) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
parentification
Noun : (sociology, psychology) A process of role reversal whereby a child is obliged to act as a parent to its own parent or sibling.
irritant
Noun : Any medication designed to cause irritation
Noun : A source of irritation.
chronic
Adjective : Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
Adjective : (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
Adjective : Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
psychoemotional
Adjective : (psychology) Describing any psychological interaction with the emotions
catastrophizing
biological
Adjective : Of or relating to biology.
Adjective : Relating to anatomy; anatomic, anatomical.
Adjective : Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
distractor
Noun : Alternative spelling of distracter [That which distracts, or serves as a distraction.]
mitigator
Noun : Someone or something that mitigates.
biotic
Adjective : (biology) Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms
Adjective : Misspelling of biontic. [(biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism.]
cytokine
Noun : (biochemistry, immunology) Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system.
disregulation
Noun : Misspelling of dysregulation. [(chiefly biochemistry) A failure to regulate properly]
covariate
Noun : (statistics) A variable that is possibly predictive of the outcome under study.
hypervigilance
Noun : An enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats.
adversity
Noun : (uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
Noun : (countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.
elicitor
Noun : A person or thing that elicits
hormonal
Adjective : (biochemistry) Pertaining to hormones.
Adjective : (colloquial) Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle.
Adjective : Strongly affected by one's hormones.
overstimulation
Noun : Excessive stimulation.
organism
Noun : (obsolete, rare) The fact of being organic; organicity.
Noun : Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system.
Noun : (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
glucocorticoid
Noun : (biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, produced by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in metabolism and have anti-inflammatory properties.
hyperthermal
Noun : (geology) Any of several brief geological periods of global warming
strain
Noun : (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
Noun : (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
Noun : (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
behavioral
Adjective : (American spelling) Of or relating to behavior.
nurture
Noun : The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
Noun : That which nourishes; food; diet.
Noun : The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual (as opposed to "nature").
behavioristics
Noun : (biology) The study of the behavior of an organism in relation to its environment
environment
Noun : The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
Noun : The natural world or ecosystem.
Noun : All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
limiting factor
Noun : (management accounting) A constraint that limits the business from achieving a higher level of profitability.
Noun : (biology) A condition that limits the growth or abundance of a population of organisms in an ecosystem.
ecotoxicity
Noun : The potential for biological, chemical or physical stressors to affect ecosystems.
macroenvironment
Noun : (biology) The large-scale and long-term environment and conditions that affect an organism.
Noun : Major external and uncontrollable factors that influence an organization's decision making, and affect its performance and strategies. These factors include the economic, demographics, legal, political, and social conditions, technological changes, and natural forces.
ecophysiology
Noun : (biology) The study of the relationships between, and adaptation of, the physiology of an organism and its environment
bioenvironment
Noun : A biological environment, or ecosystem.
biomedicine
Noun : The application of biology and physiology to clinical medicine.
Noun : The branch of medicine that studies the effects of environmental stress on organisms (most often in space travel).
Noun : (countable) A medicine created with the use of living organisms.
ecosensitivity
Noun : (biology) sensitivity of an organism to its ecological environment
critical period
Noun : (psychology, biology) A maturational stage in the lifespan of an organism during which the nervous system is especially sensitive to certain environmental stimuli.
biological psychology
Noun : (psychology) The application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes and behavior.
biological determinism
Noun : The hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism's genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) determine the majority of psychological and behavioural traits.
Noun : The interpretation of humans and human life from a strictly biological point of view.
psychobiology
Noun : (psychology, biology) The study of the biological basis for cognition and other mental processes.
Noun : (psychology) The branch of psychology that interprets psychological phenomena in terms of adaptation to biological, environmental, etc. factors.
ecology
Noun : (biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
Noun : (by extension) Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
Noun : The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
ergology
Noun : The study of the psychological effects of work, or of work patterns; especially the causes of work-related stress (job stress).
Noun : (ethnology) Knowledge originating from the study of the object culture of non-European traditional societies.
environmental science
Noun : The integrated study of factors that influence the environment and environmental systems, especially the interaction of the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment.
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