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MLD

abbr.

minimum lethal dose

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MLD

abbreviation for

(Medicine) minimum lethal dose (the smallest amount of a drug or toxic agent that will kill a laboratory animal)

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MLD

1. median lethal dose.

2. minimum lethal dose.

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But then he quickly recovered and asked me a series of highly technical questions and finished by asking, 'Tell me, professor, what do you think is the minimum lethal dose of diamorphine?'

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But then he quickly recovered and asked me a series of highly technical questions and finished by asking, 'Tell me, professor, what do you think is the minimum lethal dose of diamorphine?' "Well, of course, to establish the minimum lethal dose of the drug you have to do an experiment.

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A minimum lethal dose of cyanide is approximately at 50 mg or 0.5 mg/kg body weight [4].

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