margin of safety
noun Pharmacology.
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Origin of margin of safety
1885–90, for an earlier sense
Words nearby margin of safety
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Medical 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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