defense reaction

"The breaking of bad news nearly always sets up a defense reaction.

She was just threatening us, a defense reaction since she did not press the attack home.

If there is an invader that needs to be eliminated, your body's defense reaction begins.

The actual symptoms of sham rage are normal anger and defense reactions in animals.

Saldo felt all of his Hive defense reactions coming to full-alarm state.

Displacement (psychology) - A subconscious defense reaction.

This is a defense reaction in which she "is making sure Cathy doesn't think she feels embarrassed by doing otherwise".

Its primary defense reaction is to freeze in place, then if needed, the secondary defense involves pushing away from the bottom then drifting back down.

To avoid provoking defense reactions in all the myriads of body parts which might be stored touching it, the plastic had to have unique characteristics.

These first generation African queens produce worker bees that are manageable, not exhibiting the intense and massive defense reactions of subsequent generations.

At the same time after you pick you should play your next move off the defense reaction to the pick whether you dive, pop, or roll.

He developed the species-specific defense reaction theory which contends that many avoidance behaviors are actually elicited behaviors rather than operant behaviors.

A rapid plant defense reaction after pathogen attack is the oxidative burst, which involves the production of reactive oxygen species at the site of the attempted invasion.

The operation prompted a frantic air defense reaction at 02:17 that provided a highly effective diversion for the raiders and completely saturated the North Vietnamese air defense system.

Later in the defense reaction, this virus blocks PKR activation and the establishment of the antiviral state (Garcia-Sastre et al. 1998).

"What they did to the Sreba and the Jem'Hadar" " might have been an instinctive defense reaction, like wasps swarming to protect their nests!"

One idea is that literature is a defense reaction to the expansion of our mental life that took place as we began to acquire the basics of higher intelligence around 40,000 years ago.

But if the animal senses that a predator is nearby, the animal may begin to express species specific defense reactions such as freezing in an attempt to avoid detection by the predator.

The fear and hatred burst out in such a wave that Charlie Moorfield, caught unawares, erupted out of his chair towards Gillings in an instinctive defense reaction.

They believed this was because the excited defense reaction known as sham rage caused such a huge increase in the release of the neurotransmitters that the brain could not resynthesize noradrenaline fast enough to keep up.

The scientists will share the basic research award for solving a fundamental problem in immunology - how certain white blood cells known as T cells recognize foreign proteins in order to start the immune system's defense reaction.

Particularly impressive is the ability of the various divisions of the armamentarium to communicate with one another, as the byproducts of one defense reaction serve as the chemical signals to initiate the next phase of the plant's counterattack.

We need to provide services to enable children and adolescents to deal with such intense painful feelings, rather than waiting until severe defensive reactions are established, like oppositional and destructive behavior, and then devoting energy to trying to classify such defense reactions and searching for medications that might control them.