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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
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      Examples for "defence mechanism"
      Examples for "defence mechanism"
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      Some of these metabolites play important roles in the plant's defence mechanism.
      Pubmed
      2
      Did he avoid pining to be free as a kind of defence mechanism?
      The Guardian
      3
      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
      5
      Sigmund Freud described it as a primitive defence mechanism used to resolve emotional conflict.
      The Irish Times
      1
      They develop psychological defence mechanisms.
      Financial Crime and Corruption
      1
      It's a psychological defense mechanism, a means of coping with the unbearable.
      The panic zone
      2
      The defense mechanism wasn't a thinking being, capable of making judgment calls.
      Cold Days
      3
      Jeth rolled his eyes, sarcasm the only self- defense mechanism left to him.
      Avalon
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      Objective: A defense mechanism is an automatic psychological process necessary for successful adaptation.
      Pubmed
      5
      He was irritating because that was what he used as a defense mechanism.
      Diagnosis: danger
      1
      I discuss how defence mechanisms affect competition and cooperation within bacterial communities.
      Pubmed
      2
      The latter includes all the defence mechanisms and most of the Superego.
      The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
      3
      The latter includes all our defence mechanisms and most of the superego.
      Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
      4
      But here, there are legal defence mechanisms in place but only in name.
      Reuters
      5
      Melanization is one of the insect defence mechanisms against intruding pathogens or parasites.
      Pubmed
      1
      Toxoplasma gondii causes cerebral infection in individuals with impaired immunologic defense mechanisms.
      Pubmed
      2
      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
      5
      Restriction factors are important components of intrinsic cellular defense mechanisms against viral pathogens.
      Pubmed
      1
      She was the model for the island's self-defence mechanism.
      iD
      2
      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
      Usage of self-defense mechanism in English
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      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...
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      It only took a small engineering nudge to deputize a plant's natural, evolutionary self-defense mechanisms for threat detection.
      Wired