Effective dose or internal dose may refer to: *

Effective dose (pharmacology) In pharmacology, an effective dose (ED) or effective concentration (EC) is the dose or concentration of a drug that produces a biological response. The term "effective dose" is used when measurements are taken ''in vivo,'' while "effective conc ...

, a dose or concentration of a drug that produces a biological response *

Effective dose (radiation) Effective dose is a dose quantity in the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) system of radiological protection.ICRP publication, 103 para 103 It is the tissue-weighted sum of the equivalent doses in all specified tissues an ...

, a measure of the stochastic effect on health risk that a radiation dose internal or external to whole or part of the body will have *In toxicology, the internal dose measured through

biomonitoring In analytical chemistry, biomonitoring is the measurement of the body burden of toxic chemical compounds, elements, or their metabolites, in biological substances. Often, these measurements are done in blood and urine. Biomonitoring is performe ...

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