Their protective mechanism is to curl into a ball when threatened.

The protective mechanism turns upon the body itself and destroys it.

Picky eating, they suggest, may have developed as a protective mechanism.

These pedicellariae are used as a protective mechanism against predators.

The grub, of course, has its own protective mechanisms, he added.

This is a protective mechanism that may have evolved to promote brain development.

"The hostile personalities don't have that protective mechanism," he says.

Without the proper protective mechanisms, this important European project of creating a single market will not be completed.

Its function as a protective mechanism is the skin's most important role.

"So the explosion that destroyed the Facility was a protective mechanism of some kind."