potentiation (redirected from posttetanic potentiation)

po·ten·ti·ate  (p-tnsh-t)

tr.v. po·ten·ti·at·ed, po·ten·ti·at·ing, po·ten·ti·ates

1. To make potent or powerful.

2. To enhance or increase the effect of (a drug).

3. To promote or strengthen (a biochemical or physiological action or effect).

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[From Latin potentia, power; see potential.]

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po·tenti·ation n.

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potentiation - (medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques synergism, synergy - the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects