Definitions for fight-or-flight
fight-or-flight

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1. fight-or-flightnoun

   All the coordinated physiological responses that the sympathetic nervous system initiates in response to stress or other emergency situations.

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1. fight-or-flight

   The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-or-freeze-fawn response (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. It was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, preparing the animal for fighting or fleeing. More specifically, the adrenal medulla produces a hormonal cascade that results in the secretion of catecholamines, especially norepinephrine and epinephrine. The hormones estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol, as well as the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, also affect how organisms react to stress. The hormone osteocalcin might also play a part.This response is recognised as the first stage of the general adaptation syndrome that regulates stress responses among vertebrates and other organisms.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fight-or-flight in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fight-or-flight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of fight-or-flight in a Sentence

1. Denise Dowd:

   When you are exposed to this toxic stress, the fight or flight instinct is all you have, whether you’re being attacked by a bear in the woods or your father comes home drunk and screaming at you, these kids can shut down or they can become hypersensitive and ready to fight at the slightest provocation.

2. Neda Gould:

   To better understand the process of forgiveness, it might be useful to step back and look at the process of holding on to anger, anger is a form of stress, and so when we hold on to anger it is as though we are turning on the body's stress response, or fight or flight response, chronically. We know that turning on this response chronically leads to wear and tear on the body.

3. Cyrus Iarrobino:

   I was in fight or flight mode.

4. Michele Heisler:

   We need to think about -- are there other models ? Could we bring in social workers, psychologists, trained behavioral health people, instead of having a group of armed, uniformed police that( are met) with a strong fight-or-flight response ?

5. James Tao:

   There is a sense of fear and panic, it's one of those situations where there is so much uncertainty that no one quite knows how to respond ... if it's fight or flight, many people are choosing flight at the moment.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fight-or-Flight
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-Flight