LETHAL DOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lethal dose mean? 

• LETHAL DOSE (noun)
  The noun LETHAL DOSE has 1 sense:

1. the size dose that will cause death

  Familiarity information: LETHAL DOSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LETHAL DOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The size dose that will cause death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lethal dose" is a kind of...):

dosage; dose (a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time)

 Context examples 

Collaborators administered a lethal dose of Zaire ebolavirus to 4 rhesus macaques, then treated 3 of the animals, beginning a day later, with a mixture of the mAbs for 3 consecutive days.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

Accordingly, a potentially lethal dose of indium 131 is delivered specifically to CEA-expressing tumor cells while minimizing radiotoxicity to normal tissues.

(Anti-CEA/Anti-DTPA-In (F6-734) Bispecific Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)

The dose of a chemical or biologic preparation (e.g., a bacterial exotoxin or a suspension of bacteria) that is likely to cause death in 50% of the animals being tested; it varies in relation to the type of animal and the route of administration; (the absolute lethal dose is LD100, and minimal lethal dose is LD05).

(LD-50, NCI Thesaurus)