Unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.
1Toxoplasma gondii causes cerebral infection in individuals with impaired immunologic defense mechanisms.
2My feelings hurt, I resorted to the oldest of defense mechanisms: sarcasm.
3Called a capsid, the sheath protects viral DNA from cellular defense mechanisms.
4In order to survive within the host, bacteria have established various self- defense mechanisms.
5Restriction factors are important components of intrinsic cellular defense mechanisms against viral pathogens.
6Activation of endogenous defense mechanisms may provide better protection against stroke-induced oxidative injury.
7Conclusion: Using mature defense mechanisms helped young adults to adapt to a particular situation.
8We examined psychiatric history, the pattern of defense mechanisms, and depression and anxiety levels.
9And a lifetime's worth of defense mechanisms slamming into place.
10It has been shown that granulysin contributes to the defense mechanisms against mycobacterial infection.
11This implies that host defense mechanisms cooperate to limit inflammation while controlling fungal burden.
12These are all primitive, infantile, and often persecutory, defense mechanisms.
13Objective: To examine whether increased sleep during viral or bacterial infections supports host defense mechanisms.
14This information is important for understanding the defense mechanisms of the "fire corals".
15Plasma fibronectin is an attachment protein important for maintaining capillary integrity and host defense mechanisms.
16Truth penetrated the defense mechanisms her psyche had erected.
Translations for defense mechanisms