Betekenis van:
lethal dose
lethal dose
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- the size dose that will cause death
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- It is measured experimentally by the median lethal dose (LD50) or median infective dose (ID50).
- irradiation or chemotherapy with a sublethal dose, or with an otherwise lethal dose but with reconstitution of the immune system.
- evidence from human exposure that indicates toxic effects but does not provide lethal dose data;
- acute dose-range finding studies, chronic toxicity/carcinogenicity tests, with non-lethal end-points;
- The criteria for classification of substances for acute toxicity as outlined in section 3.1.2 are based on lethal dose data (tested or derived).
- irradiation or chemotherapy with a lethal dose without reconstitution of the immune system, or reconstitution with production of graft versus host disease;
- evidence from any other toxicity tests/assays available on the substance that indicates toxic acute effects but does not necessarily provide lethal dose data; or
- The guidance value (C) ranges for single-dose exposure which has produced a significant non-lethal toxic effect are those applicable to acute toxicity testing, as indicated in Table 3.8.2.
- As result, on the second question, the PPR Panel carried out a refined risk assessment and concluded that even at the upper limit of credible exposures birds feeding on insects in the field are unlikely to achieve a lethal dose of pirimicarb [5].