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Noun: mass-action principle
  1. (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning
    "The mass-action principle suggests that brain functions are not strictly localized";
    - mass action

Derived forms: mass-action principles

Type of: principle, rule