Individual effective dose

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-005786",
  "term": "Individual effective dose",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "The smallest dose of a substance that produces a defined effect, such as death, in one particular individual, a quantity that differs from organism to organism. The spread of these individual thresholds across a population gives the sigmoid shape of the dose-response curve. The population ED50 is the median of the individual effective doses.",
  "subject": "Chemistry and Human Health",
  "see_also": [
    "dose-response relationship"
  ],
  "references": [
    "PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 900 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/individual-effective-dose/"
}