Usually means: Body's response to perceived threat.
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  1. fight-or-flight response: Dictionary.com
  2. Fight-or-flight response: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. fight-or-flight response: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Fight-or-flight response, Fight-or-flight response: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fight-or-flight response: Merck Manuals
  2. fight-or-flight response: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Fight-or-flight response)

noun:  The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn (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.


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