Usage of "defense mechanism"

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

Uso de defense mechanism en inglés

It's a psychological defense mechanism, a means of coping with the unbearable. 
 The panic zone 

The defense mechanism wasn't a thinking being, capable of making judgment calls. 
 Cold Days 

Jeth rolled his eyes, sarcasm the only self- defense mechanism left to him. 
 Avalon 

Objective: A defense mechanism is an automatic psychological process necessary for successful adaptation. 
 Pubmed 

He was irritating because that was what he used as a defense mechanism. 
 Diagnosis: danger 

Autophagy is an important host defense mechanism which targets invading pathogens. 
 Pubmed 

Lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity represents one defense mechanism that contributes to transplant rejection. 
 Pubmed 

Melanization is a universal defense mechanism of insects against microbial infection. 
 Pubmed 

That didn't stop her tourism gene from kicking in like a defense mechanism. 
 Belonging to them 

The armadillo's smell was horrible-somedefense mechanism, Mallory guessed-butshe couldn't move away. 
 Cold springs 

Loss of appetite, in that case, is both a blessing and a self- defense mechanism. 
 Brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia 

This is one burg where they build a defense mechanism at an early age. 
 Nightfall 

Normal mucociliary flow is a significant defense mechanism in the prevention of acute sinusitis. 
 Pubmed 

Wang could be sarcastic at times, but it might just be a defense mechanism. 
 Death of a Red Heroine 

This has been ignored or explained away as a defense mechanism in previous investigations. 
 Pubmed 

It is a defense mechanism rationalizing forces ungoverned and ungovernable. 
 Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism 

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Significados de defense mechanism en inglés