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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
Testing of chemicals
Biology; Toxicology
1. In toxicology, evaluation of the therapeutic and potentially toxic effects of substances by their application through relevant routes of exposure with appropriate organisms or biological systems ...
Sample in statistics
Biology; Toxicology
1. Group of individuals often taken at random from a population for research purposes. 2. One or more items taken from a population or a process and intended to provide information on the population ...
Standardisation
Biology; Toxicology
1. Making any substance, drug or other preparation conform to type or precisely defined characteristics. 2. Establishment of precisely defined characteristics, or precisely defined methods, for ...
Tracer
Biology; Toxicology
1. Means by which something may be followed; for example a radioactive isotope may replace a stable chemical element in a toxic compound enabling the toxicokinetics to be followed. 2. labelled member ...
Quality control
Biology; Toxicology
1. Operational techniques and activities that are used to fulfil requirements for quality. 2. In toxicology, procedures incorporated in experimental protocols to reduce the possibility of error, ...
Remediation
Biology; Toxicology
1. Giving a remedy. 2. Removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water for the general protection of human health and the ...
Species
Biology; Toxicology
1. In biological systematics, group of organisms of common ancestry that are able to reproduce only among themselves and that are usually geographically distinct. 2. See chemical species
