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Sentence examples for lethal dose from inspiring English sources

'lethal dose' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a medical term that refers to the amount of a substance (usually a toxin or drug) that is likely to be fatal if it is ingested or inhaled. For example: A lethal dose of arsenic can be fatal in humans.

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lethal dose

noun

The dose of a substance or of radiation likely to cause death (sometimes suffixed with a number)

  • A lethal dose 50 will cause the death of 50% of a sample of test animals.

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lethal dose with 50% lethality.

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Environmental Sciences Europe

Four hundred is a lethal dose.

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The Guardian

She was injected with a lethal dose of phenobarbital.

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The New York Times

They remained there for two hours, each receiving 100 times the lethal dose of radiation.

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The New York Times

The lethal dose for anthrax is often said to be 8,000 to 10,000 spores.

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The New York Times

As few as eleven large earthworms can transfer a lethal dose of DDT to a robin.

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The New Yorker

To deliver the lethal dose, Harms settled upon potassium chloride, a kind of salt.

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The Guardian

Ketchum estimated that the "incapacitating dose" was forty times lower than the lethal dose.

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The New Yorker

A person would need to swallow large quantities of MCHM to approach a lethal dose.

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The New Yorker

They gave the monkeys a thousand times the lethal dose of Ebola.

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The New Yorker

Superjoint Ritual itself, about to release its second album, "A Lethal Dose of American Hatred," is no great shakes.

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