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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment > environmental exposure > absorbed dose
Preferred Term:

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.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
environmental exposure
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • absorbed dosage
  • internal dose
  • internal dosage
  • absorption dose
  • absorption dosage
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/136821
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RDF/XMLCreated 2010-08-13, last modified 2013-01-18