cross-tolerance

[ kraws-tol-er-uhns, kros- ]

nounPhysiology.
  1. 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

1
First recorded in 1920–25

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