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margin of safety

noun Pharmacology.

therapeutic index.

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Nearby words

margie, margin, margin account, margin call, margin line, margin of safety, margin plank, marginal, marginal cost, marginal costing, marginal gyrus

Origin of margin of safety

1885–90, for an earlier sense
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Medicine definitions for margin of safety

margin of safety

n.

The amount between a therapeutic dose and a lethal dose of a drug.
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