We don't have synonyms for hormesis yet — it may be a rare, specialized, newly coined, or misspelled word. The closest thesaurus entries we have are cosmesis, homeosis and phoresis.
(n) :
(biology, toxicology) A phenomenon in which an environmental agent or stressor produces a stimulatory or beneficial effect at low doses and an inhibitory or harmful effect at higher doses, corresponding to a biphasic dose-response relationship.
(n) :
(biology, toxicology) A phenomenon in which an environmental agent or stressor produces a stimulatory or beneficial effect at low doses and an inhibitory or harmful effect at higher doses, corresponding to a biphasic dose-response relationship.