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Meanings of defence mechanism in English
Portuguese
ajustamentos Catalan
mecanisme de defensa (Psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.
Russian
защитный механизм Portuguese
mecanismo de defesa Spanish
mecanismo de defensa Catalan
mecanisme de defensa Unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.
Synonyms
Examples for "psychological defence mechanism"
Examples for "psychological defence mechanism"
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They develop psychological defence mechanisms.
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I discuss how defence mechanisms affect competition and cooperation within bacterial communities.
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The latter includes all the defence mechanisms and most of the Superego.
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The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego.
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But here, there are legal defence mechanisms in place but only in name.
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Melanization is one of the insect defence mechanisms against intruding pathogens or parasites.
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Toxoplasma gondii causes cerebral infection in individuals with impaired immunologic defense mechanisms.
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My feelings hurt, I resorted to the oldest of defense mechanisms: sarcasm.
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Called a capsid, the sheath protects viral DNA from cellular defense mechanisms.
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In order to survive within the host, bacteria have established various self- defense mechanisms.
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Restriction factors are important components of intrinsic cellular defense mechanisms against viral pathogens.
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She was the model for the island's self-defence mechanism.
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The target's inner self-defence mechanism will always spot this.
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The collision was as bad as you'll see -the perfect storm when challenger and receiver meet in mid-air with no self-defencemechanisms engaged.
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Jeth rolled his eyes, sarcasm the only self-defense mechanism left to him.
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Loss of appetite, in that case, is both a blessing and a self-defense mechanism.
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One of the most critical research areas in rice is to discern the self-defense mechanism(s), an innate property of all living organisms.
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In order to survive within the host, bacteria have established various self-defense mechanisms.
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Larry's self-defense mechanisms are more practiced than mine are.
Usage of defence mechanism in English
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Some of these metabolites play important roles in the plant's defence mechanism.
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Did he avoid pining to be free as a kind of defence mechanism?
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Narcissism is fundamentally an evolved version of the splitting defence mechanism.
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I have this defence mechanism, this survival tactic of playing dumb.
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Sigmund Freud described it as a primitive defence mechanism used to resolve emotional conflict.
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This is a well known defence mechanism in nations peripheral.
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It may be an instinct, a kind of defence mechanism for dealing with shock.'
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We do not talk about it, it's a defence mechanism, we lock it away.
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But the female supplies the eggs with a defence mechanism.
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A defence mechanism, that's what the big bloke had been shouting about, wasn't it.
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Rihanna had an acceptance speech where she talked about how fashion was her defence mechanism.
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It's partly a defence mechanism against the fannish hysteria that increasingly attends his every move.
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She was the model for the island's self- defence mechanism.
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The target's inner self- defence mechanism will always spot this.
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Thus, type 2 immunity can be mobilized as an effective tissue-level defence mechanism against cancer.
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Newt did so with a thumbs-up gesture, still employing selective silence as a defence mechanism.
Translations for defence mechanism
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