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lethal doses

lethal doses is the plural of lethal dose.

Meaning of lethal dose

Noun

lethal dose (plural lethal doses, abbreviation 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.

Questions about lethal doses

What is lethal doses the plural of?
Lethal doses is the plural of lethal dose.

Words near lethal doses in the dictionary

  1. lethal chamber
  2. lethal chambered
  3. lethal chambers
  4. lethal congenital contracture syndrome
  5. lethal dose
  6. lethal doses
  7. lethal gene
  8. lethal genes
  9. lethal injection
  10. lethal injections
  11. lethal time

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