The phrase "a harmful dose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the effects of substances, medications, or chemicals that can cause negative health impacts.
Example: "Taking a harmful dose of this medication can lead to serious side effects and complications."
Alternatives: "a toxic amount" or "a dangerous quantity".
Although the possibility that some persons might not have sufficient time to accumulate a harmful lifetime dose up to the age of 50 years, we consider the evidence of no clinically important association between analgesic use and ESRD provided by this study to be the best currently available.
Hormesis-stimulating compounds initiate an adaptive stress response that renders cells/organisms resistant against high (and normally harmful) doses of the same agent.
Through the cold war and beyond, the Energy Department and its predecessor agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, denied that workers had received harmful doses of radiation.
In new guidance handed out by Public Health England on how to issue drug alerts, local drug teams are being advised to avoid talking about 'high purity' or 'high potency' drugs, and instead to talk about 'highly harmful doses' of drugs.
Assessment of different LD50 to THP-1 cells from various compounds provide a determination of the tested compounds safe zone, (the non-harmful dose).
A better understanding is crucial for achieving optimal neuroprotection in NE. 'Conditioning' describes an adaptive process of endogenous protection that occurs in all mammalian species, in which small, sublethal doses of a harmful agent protect an organism against a lethal dose of the same agent.
Prosecutors in San Luis Obispo County said the surgeon, Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, of San Francisco, gave a harmful drug and prescribed excessive doses of morphine and an anti-anxiety drug to 26-year-old Ruben Navarro, who was born with a metabolic disorder.
Medical experts, however, said the sailors would have received only small, non-harmful doses of radiation; a US defence department report published in 2014 said no link had been established between the sailors' health problems and their exposure to low doses of Fukushima radiation.
The navy maintains US sailors serving in Japan received only small, non-harmful doses of radiation.
