Definitions for "STRESS RESPONSE"
The response made to a stressor or a stress situation. This refers to stimuli, or environmental conditions or events that elicit stress. It is otherwise known as the fight-or-flight response. This involves neurohormonal changes in the body in an effort to prepare the body to act.
A set of nerve cell and endocrine responses that are elicited in response to a stressor to help restore homeostasis.
a "description of the fight-or-flight response, in which the organism prepares for danger with sympathetic and endocrine activation
a systemic reaction to an insult such as trauma, septicaemia or burns