lethal dose
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Meaning
- noun The dose of a substance or of radiation likely to cause death (sometimes suffixed with a number).
A lethal dose 50 will cause the death of 50% of a sample of test animals.
Similar words
effective dose dose semilethal dose dosage death toll death rate deathrate kill-death ratio kilodisintegration
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