Stress

Stress may refer to:

Science and medicine

 * Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
 * Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase or sentence
 * Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other
 * Occupational stress, stress related to one's job
 * Psychological stress, a feeling of strain and pressure
 * Surgical stress, systemic response to surgical injury