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- noun All the coordinated
physiological responses that thesympathetic nervous system initiates in response tostress or otheremergency situations.
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First, there is an alarm stage, like what Cannon called the fight-or-flight syndrome.
The Chemistry of Calm M.D. Henry Emmons 2010
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Called the fight-or-flight response, it relies on a complex relay of chemicals in the body to mobilize key systems.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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Called the fight-or-flight response, it relies on a complex relay of chemicals in the body to mobilize key systems.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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Called the fight-or-flight response, it relies on a complex relay of chemicals in the body to mobilize key systems.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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Called the fight-or-flight response, it relies on a complex relay of chemicals in the body to mobilize key systems.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006
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It accomplishes this through two mirror-image operating modes: sympathetic, also known as the fight-or-flight mechanism, which releases adrenaline to speed up metabolic processes in response to a perceived threat; and parasympathetic, which releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine via the body’s longest and largest nerve, the vagus to slow down and reverse the frenetic activity caused by the sympathetic response.
The Source Woodson Merrell 2008
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It accomplishes this through two mirror-image operating modes: sympathetic, also known as the fight-or-flight mechanism, which releases adrenaline to speed up metabolic processes in response to a perceived threat; and parasympathetic, which releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine via the body’s longest and largest nerve, the vagus to slow down and reverse the frenetic activity caused by the sympathetic response.
The Source Woodson Merrell 2008
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In the same story, her band of humans meets a band of others -- different enough to awaken the fight-or-flight reflex, though not different enough to preclude progeny and with it, the tortured, conflicted love endemic in such circumstances.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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In the same story, her band of humans meets a band of others -- different enough to awaken the fight-or-flight reflex, though not different enough to preclude progeny and with it, the tortured, conflicted love endemic in such circumstances.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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In the same story, her band of humans meets a band of others -- different enough to awaken the fight-or-flight reflex, though not different enough to preclude progeny and with it, the tortured, conflicted love endemic in such circumstances.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!) Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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