Look up stress or stressy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stress may refer to: Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare...

A stressor is a chemical or biological agent, environmental condition, external stimulus or an event seen as causing stress to an organism. Psychologically...

In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation. For example, an object being pulled apart, such...

Shear stress (often denoted by τ, Greek: tau) is the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section. It arises from the shear force, the component...

to define stress solely phonetically. The stress placed on syllables within words is called word stress. Some languages have fixed stress, meaning that...

In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. Stress is a type of psychological pain. Small amounts of stress may be beneficial...

Stress management consists of a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress...

Stress tensor may refer to: Cauchy stress tensor, in classical physics Stress deviator tensor, in classical physics Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor, in continuum...

Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition. When stressed...