Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
therapeutic window Function:
noun 1 : the range of dosage of a drug or of its concentration in a bodily system that provides safe effective therapy
therapeutic window … the effect may go from therapeutic to toxic with an increase of just 10 micrograms per milliliter [in] blood concentration —Lisa Davis>
2 : a usually short time interval (as after a precipitating event) during which a particular therapy can be given safely and effectively therapeutic window: thedrug must be given within three hours of a stroke in order to be effective —Genesis Report-RX>
