chronic effect
Definition
Adverse effect on animal or human body with symptoms that develop slowly, due to long and continuous exposure to low concentrations of a hazardous substance. Such symptoms do not usually subside when the exposure stops. Opposite of acute effect.
chronic effect is in the Environment & Pollution Control and Material & Occupational Safety subjects.
chronic effect appears in the definition of the following term: acute effect
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