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Physiology

a non-specific bodily response to many different harmful agents, unfolding in stages of alarm, resistance and exhaustion.

In physiology, general adaptation syndrome refers to a non-specific bodily response to many different harmful agents, unfolding in stages of alarm, resistance and exhaustion. This meaning comes from Selye (1936) in Nature.[1]

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References

Selye, H. (1936). A Syndrome produced by Diverse Nocuous Agents. Nature, 138(3479), 32-32. https://doi.org/10.1038/138032a0

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