therapeutic half-life
therapeutic half-life (in pharmacology) The time taken for half the dose of a drug to be excreted: used to calculate the most effective and nontoxic dosing intervals. It can be determined by administering a therapeutic dose of the drug labelled with a radioisotope (see labelling) and measuring the time for half of it to be excreted in the urine.
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