Usually means: Body's response to perceived threat.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. fight-or-flight: Merriam-Webster
  2. fight-or-flight, fight-or-flight: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fight-or-flight: Wiktionary
  4. Fight-or-flight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. fight-or-flight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fight-or-flight: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. fight-or-flight: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fight-or-flight)

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

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