Sentences with phrase «defense mechanism»

Cats and dogs may view the bird as prey, in which case you'll want your bird to use its natural defense mechanism of flight to escape harm.

It is a natural defense mechanism against natural change.

This is a natural defense mechanism as your body wants to get your blood sugar back up into the normal range as quickly as possible!

Although this is an important defense mechanism in bacterial infections, it does not help to combat viruses.

It is a particularly important defense mechanism for a species that is sometimes inclined to «eat first, ask questions later».

Both of these suggestions are fundamentally flawed, and in my opinion are defense mechanisms used by those putting them forth.

Their hatred of your worldview, from an external and objective standpoint, is 100 % justified as a psychological defense mechanism.

This is likely to be a novel cellular defense mechanism to prevent genetic mutations from being expressed.

That's why he and his colleagues are hunting for other defense mechanisms.

Sometimes it is a great defense mechanism from in our evolutionary past and is quite useful.

Our lawyers understand the best defense mechanism to use it to get the case dismissed on the judgment summary.

If our bodies hadn't developed certain defense mechanisms, then we'd all be dead.

Besides being poisonous and covered in spikes, scientists have found a new defense mechanism.

For example, the water fleas developed various defense mechanisms to escape predators.

Maybe it was some kind of innate defense mechanism, to prevent me from being distracted by anyone else's needs while fulfilling my children's nutritional ones.

It's essentially another form of the same defense mechanism: i.e. projection.

Base construction and tower defense mechanisms make the game more interesting and strategic.

There's a common defense mechanism that gets triggered in people when anyone brings forward an idea that isn't expected.

Over hundreds of millions of years, certain plants have developed highly effective defense mechanisms against potentially harmful insects.

Genetic engineering of human antibodies; host defense mechanisms against microbial infection.

These are commonly referred to as «symptoms» of a viral infection but are actually part of a well - trained evolutionary defense mechanism.

To avoid said consumption, living things employ various self defense mechanisms.

Was he doing this as his usual defense mechanism?

Doing that can put some dogs in defense drive where they will either: freeze, run away, or bite as his natural defense mechanism kicks in.

It has strong defense mechanisms that are trying to protect you at all times and healing mechanisms that respond to an attack in the form of an injury or infection.

My automatic defense mechanism kicked in and I immediately said not interested.

I felt it but some emotional self - defense mechanism held me back until about the 5 minute mark of last night's game.

It was conceived after a yogurt company in 2007 identified an unexpected defense mechanism that its bacteria use to fight off viruses.

Fortunately, your body has excellent defense mechanisms to protect you from these harmful viruses and bacteria.

In this eight - week module, students explore animal defense mechanisms.

But ignoring reality is a handy defense mechanism for the brain.

One of the appeals of income investing is that it is a measurable defense mechanism against job insecurity.

Puppies don't have a proper defense mechanism against external parasites and, if they are very young, they are not able to benefit from the many preventative medications available.

They bring to bear an enormous range of psychological and behavioral defense mechanisms to avoid it.

We just have to be careful about not being respectful of your natural safety defense mechanism.

But instead of going crazy they are exhibiting very normal and healthy defense mechanisms that are meant to help them survive.

That is why it is vital that you are also aware of your own defense mechanisms and your own biases.

Further study is required in order to understand how this «neighborhood watch» works and whether the network provides other defense mechanisms.

This is now exploited as a joke - which is defense mechanism in full force.

Through painting, she emphasizes this era — the evolution of physicality, emotion, and our new defense mechanisms, and she does so with a remarkable vision.

Now at a superficial glance all primitive religions are no more than a natural defense mechanism against man's ignorance, fear and insecurity.

Too easy — Although we enjoyed the tower defense mechanisms we found them to be less than important when trying to fend off the opponent's rock.

However, don't use that reassurance as an excuse or defense mechanism against making a difficult choice.

For example, Helm Stierlin (1979) stated that «family myth plays the same role in relations as defense mechanisms do in individuals» (p. 160), simultaneously protecting the family.

One of your pet's body defense mechanism when faced with CKD, is to pass more water through what functional kidney tissue remains.

The antioxidant defense mechanism of nectarines may prove effective in combating major conditions such as obesity - related complications, macular degeneration and it also supports in the prevention of cancer.

Immunity is a complex series of defense mechanisms by which an animal is able to resist a disease or infection or, at least resist the harmful consequences of the infection.