therapeutic index
therapeutic index
nounDefinition of THERAPEUTIC INDEX
: a measure of the relative desirability of a drug for the attaining of a particular medical end that is usually expressed as the ratio of the largest dose producing no toxic symptoms to the smallest dose routinely producing cures
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1926
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