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chain reaction medical definition
noun
- A series of events in which each induces or influences the next.
- A series of chemical reactions in which one product of a reacting set is a reactant in the following set.
- A multistage nuclear reaction, especially a self-sustaining series of fissions in which the release of neutrons from the splitting of one atom leads to the splitting of others.
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