hurtful

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dangerous and harmful
adverse
adverse conditions
adverse effect
adverse publicity
adverse reaction
deleteriously
destabilizing
destructive
destructively
destructiveness
inimical
inimically
injuriously
insidious
insidiousness
self-destruction
self-destructive
stinking thinking
toxicity
treacherously

Examples of injurious

injurious
Effect of fluoxetine on self-injurious behavior in the developmentally disabled: a preliminary study.
Moreover, preliminary analyses tested process-level hypotheses connecting child maltreatment to self-injurious outcomes via dissociative and somatic mechanisms.
Rather, it is accomplished by cognitively reconstruing injurious conduct so that it can be done free from the restraint of empathy and self-censure.
Less-invasive therapies are being investigated, with a particular focus on the inhibition of injurious growth factors.
During disease progression, tissue hypoxia upregulates injurious growth factors, and these eventually stimulate a fibrovascular lesion that compromises vision and can lead to blindness.
The release of factors injurious to endothelium from an abnormal placenta likely underlies the pathophysiology of pre-eclampsia.
However, seeds are generally soaked (submerged) in water, resulting in a hypoxic environment that is injurious to certain species.
More effective options might involve reducing damage losses by preventing the injurious effects of droughts once they had set in.
In this model, neurotransmitter function may influence the environment, which may in turn, modify the liability for developing aggressive and self-injurious behavior.
Both injurious and non-injurious falls are a frequent occurrence resulting in potentially devastating physical and social consequences.
Such irregular hours are also very injurious to their moral character.
Predicting the persistence of severe self-injurious behavior.
Although a mainly tropical group, injurious species are to be found in all warmer parts of the world and several are serious pests in glasshouses in temperate areas.
The effects of fluoxetine and buspirone on self-injurious and stereotypic behavior in adult male rhesus macaques.
Finally, the study's emphasis on developmental processes and pathways moves this research beyond the level of description to examine specific transactions that may lead to self-injurious outcomes.
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