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An index of toxicity (lethal dose 50%), the amount of the substance that kills 50% of the test population of experimental animals when administered as a single dose.

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Lethal dose for 50 percent of those exposed to a toxic agent.

 

Median lethal dose; the dose that will kill 50% of the tested group.

 
 

 

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