NOUN
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
How To Use defense reaction In A Sentence
- The honeybee immune system, like other species of holometabolous insects, depends on two main categories of defense reactions: the cell-mediated responses such as phagocytosis and encapsulation of foreign objects, and cell-free defense mechanisms represented by the anti-microbial immune proteins" (Response of the Apoidea to fungal infections by Glinski and Buczek - PDF format). Bee nonsense
- It is now established that these interactions have also a physiological function in regulating the development of the placenta, rather than represent solely a maternal immunological defense reaction against the allogenic fetus. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
