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Meanings of self-defense mechanism in English

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.

      защитный механизм
      Usage of self-defense mechanism in English
      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
      3
      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
      5
      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...
      6
      It only took a small engineering nudge to deputize a plant's natural, evolutionary self-defense mechanisms for threat detection.
      Wired