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stressor

[ stres-er, -awr ]

noun

  1. an activity, event, or other stimulus that causes stress.


stressor

/ ˈٰɛə /

noun

  1. an event, experience, etc, that causes stress
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of stressor1

First recorded in 1950–55; stress + -or 2
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Some of it, like the famous Ballerina Farm, also targets married adult women, offering an idyllic fantasy of farm life far removed from the stressors of most women's daily existence.

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In the 1960s, neuroscientists studying how animals reacted to stressors came across a surprising finding.

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Social support is thought to be an adaptive response to extreme stressors, Platt said.

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But abalone have a slow reproductive rate, and their populations have been decimated due to overfishing, marine heat waves and other environmental stressors.

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An important piece in how these stressors affect our physical body seems to lie in how they are perceived.

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