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MTD

MTD

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The highest drug dose that does not cause harmful side effects in patients
  • noun
  • Specialized
: dosis máxima tolerada
  • In the randomized Viagra India online trial, MTD was evaluated in extending key elements of last internalization in GPNMB.

Examples

  • We also went to places where there was a delegation from the MST, Brazil's movement of Landless Peasants. (MTD 2002:31).

    Academic text (2008)

  • The oncologist explained that the MTD for this chemotherapy drug is critical in determining safe treatment plans for patients.

  • Researchers found that administering doses above the MTD led to serious side effects, highlighting the need for careful dosage management.

  • During the clinical trial, the team monitored the patients closely to ensure they did not exceed the MTD of the experimental medication.

Surface Forms

MTD singular
MTDs plural

Morphology

MTD = M + T + D

This is an initialism (MTD = maximum tolerated dose); the individual letters do not convey the meaning and learners cannot derive the expansion from the letters alone.

Etymology

MTD is short for maximum tolerated dose, where maximum means 'largest', tolerated means 'can be handled', and dose means 'amount of a drug'. So MTD is the largest amount of medicine a patient can 'tolerate' without bad side effects.