Rebound effect

Rebound effect
The characteristic of a drug to produce reverse effects when the effect of the drug has passed or the patient no longer responds to it.

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  • rebound — rebound, reverberate, recoil, resile, repercuss are comparable when they mean to spring back to an original position or shape. Rebound basically implies a springing back after a collision or impact {the ball readily rebounds when thrown against a …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • rebound — rebound, redound 1. Rebound is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable as a noun and with the stress on the second syllable as a verb. 2. The image with the verb rebound is of something bouncing back, and with redound it is of a tide or… …   Modern English usage

  • Effect — Ef*fect , n. [L. effectus, fr. efficere, effectum, to effect; ex + facere to make: cf. F. effet, formerly also spelled effect. See {Fact}.] 1. Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rebound — re|bound1 [rıˈbaund] v 1.) if a ball or other moving object rebounds, it moves quickly back away from something it has just hit →↑ricochet rebound off ▪ His shot on goal rebounded off the post. 2.) [I] if prices, values etc rebound, they increase …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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