Usually means: Rapid decrease in response to drug.
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  1. tachyphylaxis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tachyphylaxis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tachyphylaxis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tachyphylaxis: Wiktionary
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  6. tachyphylaxis: Dictionary.com
  7. Tachyphylaxis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  4. Tachyphylaxis: GLOSSARY OF ALLERGY TERMS
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▸ noun:  (medicine) A rapidly decreasing response to a drug following administration of the initial doses.

Similar:
counteradaptation, pharmacoresponse, drug holiday, chronotolerance, antiperiodic, pharmacoprophylaxis, timecourse, attenuation, redose, antipyresis, more...

Adjectives:
rapid, clinical, cross, histamine, specific, possible, therapeutic, less, adrenergic

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Similar:
counteradaptation, pharmacoresponse, drug holiday, chronotolerance, antiperiodic, pharmacoprophylaxis, timecourse, attenuation, redose, antipyresis, more...

Adjectives:
rapid, clinical, cross, histamine, specific, possible, therapeutic, less, adrenergic



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