therapeutic window

English

Noun

therapeutic window (plural therapeutic windows)

1. (pharmacology) The range of doses of a drug which are effective without being harmful.
   • 2001: The separation between the dose range in which the desirable medical benefits are seen, and the higher dose range at which adverse effects emerge, is known as the ‘therapeutic window’. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 31)