The LD50 is a pharmacokinetic term that describes the lethal dose of a drug for 50% of the study population. We talk about similar concepts all the time in anesthesia (for example, the dose of a drug for 50% of patients to fall asleep) so I loved this comic.
Image is from
xkcd, drawn by Randall Munroe, shown under Creative Commons Attribution License.
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