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STRESSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bearing a stress or accent
Example:
an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in 'delay'
Synonyms:
accented; stressed
Classified under:
Similar:
emphasised; emphasized; emphatic (spoken with emphasis)
masculine ((music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable)
Antonym:
unstressed (not bearing a stress or accent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suffering severe physical strain or distress
Example:
he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing
Synonyms:
distressed; stressed
Classified under:
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb stress
Context examples:
The study authors stressed that although they found a higher risk, many extremely low birth weight babies will not develop mental health problems later in life.
(Tiny Babies May Face Mental Health Problems Later, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The WHO report recommends making the environments for adolescents safer, especially if they live in areas already stressed by conflict, poverty or crime.
(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)
Many patients are asymptomatic until the hemostatic system is stressed by surgery or trauma.
(Hemophilia B, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Using NMR spectroscopy, the researchers found that when the cells become stressed and die, they release PAR, which binds very strongly to calcium ions.
(Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified, University of Cambridge)
The results suggest that people who commonly resist acknowledging their darkest emotions, or judge them harshly, can end up feeling more psychologically stressed.
(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Remarkably, when the cells were stressed — by exposure to viral or bacterial components, or a toxic chemical such as hydrogen peroxide — up to 14% of the methionine was misplaced onto other tRNAs.
(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)
Pedišić stressed the finding did not mean running to any degree resulted in a 27% lower risk of early death from any cause, since dose-response was looked at in a smaller number of studies than used to calculate the overall effect.
(Reduce Risk of Early Death with Any Amount of Running, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The researchers found that while stress-resilient mice had VTA dopamine neurons with stable firing rates and normal dopamine activity, these neurons had higher levels of an excitatory electrical current than those of stressed mice.
(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)
It is highly dynamic in nature, and its function can change to help protect the growing fetus when conditions become less favourable for its development, for example through a lack of nutrients or oxygen or when the mother is stressed.
(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)
Regular exercise helps children: • Feel less stressed • Feel better about themselves • Feel more ready to learn in school • Keep a healthy weight • Build and keep healthy bones, muscles and joints • Sleep better at night
(Exercise for Children, NIH)
