Fight-or-flight Definition

fītôrflīt
adjective
Designating or of an animal's overall instinctive response to danger, that prepares it either to confront or to flee the threat: among the common physical reactions are a release of epinephrine into the bloodstream and increased blood flow to the muscles.
Webster's New World
noun

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

Wiktionary

Alternative spelling of fight-or-flight.

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Fight-or-flight Sentence Examples

  • This fight or flight response is getting you ready to either get the threat away from you or ready to run away from it.

  • Whatever the cause, our body reacts in the same way - the ' fight or flight ' response to a stressful event.

  • This is most commonly known as the fight or flight response.

  • He found himself on the Caribbean Sanctuary, in the small chamber with the Oracle book.  Sea breeze swept through the small windows of the room, and he took a step towards the lectern on which the open book rested.  The pages displayed had a few words written on them rather than the constantly shifting writing that normally scrawled itself across the pages.  He felt himself compelled towards the book even as his fight-or-flight instinct reared up.

  • The body is effectively being prepared for either fight or flight and hormones called catecholamines are produced in vast quantities.

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