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therapeutic window

therapeutic window noun: the range of doses of a drug which are effective without being harmful.

Noun

therapeutic window (plural therapeutic windows)

  1. The range of doses of a drug which are effective without being harmful.
    • 2001: The separation between the dose range in which the desirable medical benefits are seen, and the higher dose range at which adverse effects emerge, is known as the ‘therapeutic window’. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 31)

Forms of therapeutic window

pluraltherapeutic windows

Questions about therapeutic window

What does therapeutic window mean?
Therapeutic window means the range of doses of a drug which are effective without being harmful.
What part of speech is therapeutic window?
Therapeutic window is a noun.
What is the plural of therapeutic window?
The plural of therapeutic window is therapeutic windows.

Words near therapeutic window in the dictionary

  1. therapeutic touch
  2. therapeutic use exemption
  3. therapeutic use exemptions
  4. therapeutic vaccine
  5. therapeutic vaccines
  6. therapeutic window
  7. therapeutic windows
  8. therapeutical
  9. therapeutically
  10. therapeuticals
  11. therapeuticize

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