counteradaptation (English, noun)
expansion: counteradaptation (countable and uncountable, plural counteradaptations)
Senses:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment
The development of tolerance; the adaptation of the body's homeostatic mechanisms to counteract a drug effect.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment
The evolutionary adaptation of one species to adaptive changes by another.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: adaptation that counters a change to an organism's environment
The distortion of one sensory modality that accompanies adaptation to alterations in a perceptual cues from a related modality.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: counteradaptations
tags: plural
form: counter-adaptation
tags: alternative