Cumulative action


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(Med.) that action of certain drugs, by virtue of which they produce, when administered in small doses repeated at considerable intervals, the same effect as if given in a single large dose.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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