lethal dose

English

Noun

lethal dose (plural lethal doses) (abbreviated as LD)

  1. 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.

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