What is resilience? Used differently by a range of fields from psychology to engineering, resilience has no single widely accepted definition. The concept typically connotes an ability to âbounce backâ from a stress or disturbance, potentially returning to a pre-stress norm or a transformed post-stress condition.
a chemical transmitter substance produced by cells of the body and transported by the bloodstream to the cells and organs on which it has a specific regulatory effect. adj., adj hormoÂ´nal. Hormones act as chemical messengers to body organs, stimulating certain life processes and retarding others.
A hormone is a chemical substance made and secreted by one cell that travels through the circulatory system or the extracellular fluid to affect the activities of cells in another part of the body or another nearby cell.