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Minimum lethal dose

Term · Chemistry · MLC-T-CHM-007399

The smallest dose of a substance that kills even one treated test animal under stated conditions, recorded in toxicity databases as LDLo. It lies below the LD50, the dose that kills half of a treated group, and is usually expressed in milligrams per kilogram of body weight.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CHM-007399
FieldChemistry
SubjectChemistry and Human Health
ReferencesPAC, 1993, 65, 2003. 'Glossary for chemists of terms used in toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)' on page 2071 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199365092003)
Record as JSON
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  "term": "Minimum lethal dose",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "The smallest dose of a substance that kills even one treated test animal under stated conditions, recorded in toxicity databases as LDLo. It lies below the LD50, the dose that kills half of a treated group, and is usually expressed in milligrams per kilogram of body weight.",
  "subject": "Chemistry and Human Health",
  "references": [
    "PAC, 1993, 65, 2003. 'Glossary for chemists of terms used in toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 1993)' on page 2071 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199365092003)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/minimum-lethal-dose/"
}

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