The nurse cautions a patient taking an anticoagulant that he should avoid taking aspirin because one drug may increase the action of the other drug. This effect is called:
a. compatibility.
b. antagonistic.
c. synergism.
d. cooperation.
C
When one drug increases the action of another drug, it is called synergism.
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