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Learning to cope with repeated stress
Author(s) -
Leng Gareth,
Russell John A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.331bk.x
Subject(s) - pathological , adaptation (eye) , stress (linguistics) , psychology , neuroscience , medicine , philosophy , linguistics
stress ( stres ). 1. Any potentially damaging strain, force, or agent, which stimulates a physiological defence reaction and is capable under certain circumstances of producing pathological lesions. Adaptation to the various kinds of stress to which man is exposed is a condition of his survival …. ( British Medical Dictionary, 1961 )