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• post-traumatic stress disorder (noun)
  1. medical a mental illness which can develop after a very bad experience such as a plane crash
• posttraumatic stress disorder (noun)
  1. an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
• primary stress (noun)
  1. technical the strongest force that is put on a part of a long word when you say it, like the force given to 'pri' in 'primary'. It is shown in this dictionary by the mark ( ' ).
• secondary stress (noun)
  1. the second strongest STRESS that is put on a part of a long word when you speak it. It is shown in this dictionary by the mark (%STRESS;) [↪  primary stress]
• sentence stress (noun)
  1. the distribution of stresses within a sentence
• stress fracture (noun)
  1. fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury
• stress incontinence (noun)
  1. urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing, laughing, sneezing, lifting or straining
• stress mark (noun)
  1. a mark () that shows which part of a word you emphasize when you pronounce it
• stress test (noun)
  1. a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress
• word stress (noun)
  1. the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
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