Medical Term:
additive
Pronunciation: ad′i-tiv
Definition:
- A substance not naturally part of a material (food) but deliberately added to fulfill some specific purpose (preservation).
- Tending to add or be added; denoting addition.
- In metric studies (genetics, epidemiology, physiology, statistics), having the property that the total combined effect of two or more factors equals the sum of their individual effects in isolation.
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
