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After a Particularly Disturbing Call the Previous Day, Your Partner

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After a particularly disturbing call the previous day, your partner is unusually angry and having a difficult time concentrating on his work. What type of stress reaction would you be suspicious of?


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Inhibits Heart Rate

Inhibiting heart rate refers to various mechanisms or actions that decrease the frequency at which the heart beats, often through the action of specific neurotransmitters or hormones.

Parasympathetic

One of the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system, often referred to as the "rest and digest" system, which conserves energy as it slows the heart rate, increases intestinal and gland activity, and relaxes sphincter muscles in the gastrointestinal tract.

Urinary Bladder

A hollow organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine from the kidneys before it is expelled from the body.

Digestive Tract

A series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus, where digestion of food takes place.

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