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The abbreviation ED50 stands for “50% Effective Dose”. This is an umbrella term for all methods that determine a 50% effect, be it lethal (LD50), infective (ID50), protective (PD50), etc. All these methods use the same statistical calculations, hence the overall nomenclature ED50.