Usually means: Ratio of effective dose to toxicity.
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  1. therapeutic index: Merriam-Webster
  2. therapeutic index: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. therapeutic index: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. therapeutic index: Dictionary.com
  5. Therapeutic index: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. therapeutic index: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. therapeutic index: Wiktionary

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  1. therapeutic index: Legal dictionary
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  1. therapeutic index: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  6. therapeutic index: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (therapeutic index)

noun:  (pharmacology) The ratio of the median toxic dose of a drug to its median effective dose, used to gauge the safety of a particular medication. A low therapeutic index indicates that the drug is easily overdosed.

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