dose-response

dose–response

adj

Definition of DOSE-RESPONSE

: of, relating to, or graphing the pattern of physiological response to varied dosage (as of a drug or radiation) in which there is typically little or no effect at very low dosages and a toxic or unchanging effect at high dosages with the maximum increase in effect somewhere between the extremes <nicotine was rated as highly euphoric, with dose–response curves similar to those of cocaine, amphetamines and morphine—Sandra Blakeslee>