Usually means: Cause of physical or mental strain.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. stressor: Merriam-Webster
  2. stressor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stressor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stressor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stressor: Vocabulary.com
  6. stressor: Wordnik
  7. stressor: Wiktionary
  8. stressor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. stressor: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. stressor: Dictionary.com
  11. Stressor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. stressor: Rhymezone
  13. stressor: FreeDictionary.org
  14. stressor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. stressor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stressor: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stressor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. stressor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. stressor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stressor: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stressor)

noun:  (psychology, biology) An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.

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