Toxicology

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.

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Risk identification

Biology; Toxicology

Recognition of a potential hazard and definition of the factors required to assess the probability of exposure of organisms or people to that hazard and of harm resulting from such exposure.

Stochastic effect

Biology; Toxicology

Phenomenon pertaining to or arising from chance, and hence obeying the laws of probability.

Stochastic process

Biology; Toxicology

Phenomenon pertaining to or arising from chance, and hence obeying the laws of probability.

Pro-pesticide

Biology; Toxicology

Substance applied in a form that is not active as a pesticide and which becomes active once it enters an organism and undergoes chemical modification.

Atherosclerosis

Biology; Toxicology

Pathological condition in which there is thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of the walls of blood vessels, characterised by a variable combination of changes of the innermost layer ...

Ciguateratoxin poisoning

Biology; Toxicology

Serious illness caused by eating carnivorous fish such as snappers and barracuda that have become contaminated by toxins produced by the micro-alga, Gambierdiscus toxicus; gastrointestinal symptoms ...

Blood-placenta barrier

Biology; Toxicology

Physiological interface between maternal and foetal blood circulations that philtres out some substances which could harm the foetus while favouring the passage of others such as nutrients: many fat ...