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Meanings of defence mechanism in English

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mecanisme de defensa

(Psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.

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        защитный механизм
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        mecanismo de defesa
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        mecanismo de defensa
        Catalan
        mecanisme de defensa

        Unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.

              защитный механизм
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              Examples for "psychological defence mechanism"
              Examples for "psychological defence mechanism"
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              They develop psychological defence mechanisms.
              Financial Crime and Corruption
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              I discuss how defence mechanisms affect competition and cooperation within bacterial communities.
              Pubmed
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              The latter includes all the defence mechanisms and most of the Superego.
              The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
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              The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego.
              Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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              But here, there are legal defence mechanisms in place but only in name.
              Reuters
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              Melanization is one of the insect defence mechanisms against intruding pathogens or parasites.
              Pubmed
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              Toxoplasma gondii causes cerebral infection in individuals with impaired immunologic defense mechanisms.
              Pubmed
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              My feelings hurt, I resorted to the oldest of defense mechanisms: sarcasm.
              Gentlemen prefer succubi
              3
              Called a capsid, the sheath protects viral DNA from cellular defense mechanisms.
              Wired
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              In order to survive within the host, bacteria have established various self- defense mechanisms.
              Pubmed
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              Restriction factors are important components of intrinsic cellular defense mechanisms against viral pathogens.
              Pubmed
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              She was the model for the island's self-defence mechanism.
              iD
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              The target's inner self-defence mechanism will always spot this.
              Meltdown
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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.
              The Guardian
              1
              Jeth rolled his eyes, sarcasm the only self-defense mechanism left to him.
              Avalon
              2
              Loss of appetite, in that case, is both a blessing and a self-defense mechanism.
              Brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia
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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.
              Pubmed
              4
              In order to survive within the host, bacteria have established various self-defense mechanisms.
              Pubmed
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              Larry's self-defense mechanisms are more practiced than mine are.
              Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
              Usage of defence mechanism in English
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              Some of these metabolites play important roles in the plant's defence mechanism.
              Pubmed
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              Did he avoid pining to be free as a kind of defence mechanism?
              The Guardian
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              Narcissism is fundamentally an evolved version of the splitting defence mechanism.
              The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
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              I have this defence mechanism, this survival tactic of playing dumb.
              The Guardian
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              Sigmund Freud described it as a primitive defence mechanism used to resolve emotional conflict.
              The Irish Times
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              This is a well known defence mechanism in nations peripheral.
              Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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              It may be an instinct, a kind of defence mechanism for dealing with shock.'
              Voices
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              We do not talk about it, it's a defence mechanism, we lock it away.
              The Guardian
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              But the female supplies the eggs with a defence mechanism.
              BBC
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              A defence mechanism, that's what the big bloke had been shouting about, wasn't it.
              Pack animals
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              Rihanna had an acceptance speech where she talked about how fashion was her defence mechanism.
              Radio NZ
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              It's partly a defence mechanism against the fannish hysteria that increasingly attends his every move.
              The Guardian
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              She was the model for the island's self- defence mechanism.
              iD
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              The target's inner self- defence mechanism will always spot this.
              Meltdown
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              Thus, type 2 immunity can be mobilized as an effective tissue-level defence mechanism against cancer.
              Pubmed
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              Newt did so with a thumbs-up gesture, still employing selective silence as a defence mechanism.
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