After receiving morphine, a patient may require larger-than-average doses of Vicodin, another analgesic, to obtain the same efficacy that the Vicodin alone would produce. This phenomenon is known as:
A) system desensitization.
B) potentiation.
C) cross tolerance.
D) CO-dependent inhibition.
C
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