STRESSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stressor mean? 

• STRESSOR (noun)
  The noun STRESSOR has 1 sense:

1. any agent that causes stress to an organism

  Familiarity information: STRESSOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRESSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any agent that causes stress to an organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("stressor" is a kind of...):

agent (an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect)

Derivation:

stress (test the limits of)

 Context examples 

Stressors trigger the cell to make what are known as reactive oxygen species.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

Low levels could cause GPCRs to primarily activate the arrestin side of their signaling pathways — leaving out the other half that helps the heart respond to stressors.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Family of highly conserved, specific proteins produced by prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells in response to heat shock or other stressor; some may protect other proteins from denaturation or degradation.

(Heat Shock Protein, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Research shows that men seem to be more sensitive to certain stressors in their environment compared to women, such as those related to work and finances.

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)

The scientists used fruit flies to examine the relationship between lifespan and signaling proteins that defend the body against environmental stressors, such as bacterial infections and cold temperatures.

(Defending against environmental stressors may shorten lifespan, National Institutes of Health)

Children with MMA suffer from frequent life-threatening metabolic crises when they encounter a minor viral illness or other stressors like trauma, dietary imbalance or surgery.

(Elevated hormone flags liver problems in mice with methylmalonic acidemia, National Institutes of Health)

The research supplied new data on the role of environmental stressors in coral disease and may provide a toolkit for combating disease in corals.

(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)

Researchers at the University of California San Diego studying how animals respond to infections have found a new pathway that may help in tolerating stressors that damage proteins.

(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"The variability of the arrangement of the leaf area in the canopy can be important in terms of forest productivity as well as resilience to different types of disturbances and stressors."

(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)

A category of psychiatric disorders which are characterized by emotional or behavioral symptoms that develop within 3 months of a stressor and do not persist for more than an additional 6 months after the stressor is no longer present.

(Adjustment disorder, NCI Thesaurus)