environmental stressor
1Stressor — In chemistry, a stressor is something that either speeds up a reaction rate or keeps the reaction rate the same. Stressors include light, temperature and elevated sound levels. Stressors also include the phenomena of substance concentration (does …
2stressor — noun An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism …
3disorder — A disturbance of function, structure, or both, resulting from a genetic or embryonic failure in development or from exogenous factors such as poison, trauma, or disease. adjustmen …
4Noise health effects — are the health consequences of elevated sound levels. Elevated workplace or other noise can cause hearing impairment, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance, sleep disturbance, and decreased school performance. Changes in the immune… …
5Fight-or-flight response — Refimprove|date=February 2007The fight or flight response, also called the fright , fight or flight response, hyperarousal or the acute stress response, was first described by Walter Cannon in 1915. [… …
6White band disease — is characterized by complete coral tissue degradation of Caribbean acroporid corals. Two species are affected, Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis (Gladfelter, 1982). The disease exhibits a sharp demarcation between apparently healthy coral… …
7Adjustment disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F43.2 ICD 9 309 …
8Stress (biology) — This article is about the concept of stress in relation to biology. . For the concept of stress in physics and mechanics, see Stress (mechanics). Stress is a term in psychology and biology, borrowed from physics and engineering and first used in… …
9Stress (biological) — Stress is a biological term which refers to the consequences of the failure of a human or animal body to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats to the organism, whether actual or imagined. [ The Stress of Life , Hans Selye, 1956.] …
10Occupational health psychology — Psychology …
