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Toxicology
A branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals or physical agents on living organisms, as well as the symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people.
Contributors in Toxicology
Toxicology
Elimination (in toxicology)
Biology; Toxicology
Disappearance of a substance from an organism or a part thereof, by processes of metabolism, secretion, or excretion.
Equivalent diameter of a particle
Biology; Toxicology
Diameter of a spherical particle of the same density as a particle under investigation that, relative to a given phenomenon or property, would behave in the same way as the particle under ...
Functional genomics
Biology; Toxicology
Development and implementation of technologies to characterise the mechanisms through which genes and their products function and interact with each other and with the environment.
Dispersion (in environmental chemistry)
Biology; Toxicology
Dilution of a pollutant by spreading in the atmosphere or water due to diffusion or turbulent action.
Elimination rate
Biology; Toxicology
Differential with respect to time of the concentration or amount of a substance in the body, or a part thereof, resulting from elimination.
Passive sampler
Biology; Toxicology
Device for taking samples of environmental media following diffusional contact with a suitable collecting material.
Lysimeter
Biology; Toxicology
Laboratory column of selected representative soil or a protected monolith of undisturbed field soil with which it is possible to sample and monitor the movement of water and substances.
