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What does potentiate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word potentiate? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) To endow with power.
  2. (transitive) To enhance.
  3. (transitive) To increase the potency (of a drug or biochemical agent).
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Phenothiazines, tricyclic antidepressants, and CNS depressants may potentiate the therapeutic and adverse effects of opioids.
Because it appears to potentiate gamma-aminobutyric acid inhibitory neurotransmitters, it may potentiate anesthesia's sedative effects.
These inhibitors can potentiate the hypotensive effects of nitrates and alpha blockers.
The goal is to analyze these killing cells and determine what potentiate their capacity to be toxic in the brain of multiple sclerosis patients.
Alternatively, devising agents to slow the breakdown of natural cannabinoids might potentiate their analgesic effects.
In refractory HF with anasarca, hyperchloremic acidosis was induced to potentiate the effect of intravenous mercurials.

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