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881-04-48
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en
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Standard
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biological half-life
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the time required for the amount of a particular substance in a biological system to be reduced to one-half of its initial value by biological processes when the process of elimination follows an exponential function of time
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1983-01
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the time required for the amount of a particular substance in a biological system to be reduced to one-half of its initial value by biological processes when the process of elimination follows an exponential function of time