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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.
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Toxicology
No-effect level (NEL)
Biology; Toxicology
Maximum dose (of a substance) that produces no detectable changes under defined conditions of exposure. Note: This term tends to be substituted by no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) or ...
Health-based exposure limit
Biology; Toxicology
Maximum concentration or intensity of exposure that can be tolerated without significant effect (based on only scientific and not economic evidence concerning exposure levels and associated health ...
Estimated exposure concentration (EEC)
Biology; Toxicology
Measured or calculated amount or mass concentration of a substance to which an organism is likely to be exposed, considering exposure by all sources and routes.
No-response level (NRL)
Biology; Toxicology
Maximum dose of a substance at which no specified response is observed in a defined population and under defined conditions of exposure.
Endemic
Biology; Toxicology
Present in a community or among a group of people; said of a disease prevailing continually in a region.
Extra risk
Biology; Toxicology
Probability that an agent produces an observed response, as distinguished from the probability that the response is caused by a spontaneous event unrelated to the agent.
Enzootic
Biology; Toxicology
Present in a community or among a group of animals; said of a disease prevailing continually in a region.
