Effective dose may refer to:
- Effective dose (pharmacology), a dose of pharmacologic agent which will have a therapeutic
- Effective dose (radiation), a measure of the stochastic effect that a radiation dose to part of the body will have on the whole organism
- Biologically effective dose, the effective dose of radiation or a drug that must be delivered to a target organ or tissue to have a desired therapeutic effect
Famous quotes containing the words effective and/or dose:
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
—Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)
“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)