rebound effect
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Noun
[edit]rebound effect (plural rebound effects)
- (medicine) The emergence or reemergence of symptoms, often with greater severity, when a medicine prescribed to suppress the original symptoms is reduced or discontinued.
- Synonym: rebound phenomenon
- (conservation) Synonym of takeback (“reduction in energy savings from new technologies due to increased levels of demand”)