potentiation

English

Alternative forms

• potentation

Etymology

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Noun

potentiation (countable and uncountable, plural potentiations)

1. (medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously

   Synonyms: synergy, synergism

   • 2007, Martha L. Escobar with Brian Derrick, “Long-Term Potentiation and Depression as Putative Mechanisms for Memory Formation”, in Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni, editor, Neural Plasticity and Memory‎^[1], CRC Press, retrieved 5 December 2009:

     Tim Bliss and Terje Lomo^1,2 first reported the phenomenon of long-term potentiation (LTP), an increase in synaptic efficacy following synaptic activity, over 30 years ago. Since then, LTP has generated enormous interest....

Derived terms

• depotentiation
• immunopotentiation
• long-term potentiation
• zoopotentiation

Related terms

• potentiate
• potentiative

Translations

the action of a substance

• French: potentiation
• Spanish: potenciación
• Turkish: potansiyasyon

References

• “potentiation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• potentiator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia