cross-tolerance
[ kraws-tol-er-uhns, kros- ]
nounPhysiology.
the resistance to one or more effects of a substance because of tolerance to a pharmacologically similar substance: a cross-tolerance of some alcoholics to anesthetics.
Origin of cross-tolerance
1First recorded in 1920–25
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