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alarm reaction
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alarm reaction [ə′lärm rē′ak·shən]
(biology)
The sum of all nonspecific phenomena which are elicited by sudden exposure to stimuli, which affect large portions of the body, and to which the organism is quantitatively or qualitatively not adapted.
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