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tolerance

In medicine, gradual increase of resistance to a drug's effects when it is taken over a long period. This means that more of the drug must be taken to achieve the desired effect.



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A few specific examples of reported cross tolerance include: salt stress inducing chilling tolerance, mechanical stress inducing chilling tolerance, water stress conferring chilling resistance, and heat stress inducing endurance to heavy metal toxicity, salt stress, water stress, and reducing chilling injury (Sabehat et al.
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