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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary

U.S. Department of Agriculture

absorbed dose

Definition: The amount of a substance penetrating across an absorption barrier (the exchange boundaries) of an organism, via either physical or biological processes.
Definition Source: US Environmental Protection Agency
Used For: absorbed dosage; absorption dosage; absorption dose; internal dosage; internal dose
Spanish: dosis absorbida

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