Stressor definition

Stressor means a social, economic, technological, biological, physical, or environmental condition that acts over time to disrupt the number, diversity, interrelations, feedback mechanisms, or adaptive capacities of the components of a complex system.
Stressor means a chemical or biological agent, environmental condition, external stimulus or an event that causes stress to an organism.
Stressor used here synonymous for pressure.

Examples of Stressor in a sentence

  • Stressor parameters were compiled within the GIG groups in dependence of their importance for intercalibrating the assessment systems and their availability.

  • Examples of trauma screens include the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, the Resettlement Stressor Scale, and the War Trauma Scale.

  • Stressor paradigms in developmental studies: What does and does not work to produce mean increases in salivary cortisol.

  • The ADR Compex and Vocal Stressor Limiter/Compressors are complex units that are often very costly to service.


More Definitions of Stressor

Stressor means a pollutant or other identified cause of impairment to a surface water.