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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
Spectral radiant power
Biology; Toxicology
The radiant power at wavelength lambda (λ) per unit wavelength interval.
Regioselectivity
Biology; Toxicology
Terms referring to a reaction in which one direction of bond making or breaking occurs preferentially over all other possible directions. Note: Reactions are termed completely (100%) regioselective ...
Sampling error
Biology; Toxicology
That part of the total error (the estimate from a sample minus the population value) associated with using only a fraction of the population and extrapolating to the whole, as distinct from ...
Toxicometry
Biology; Toxicology
Term sometimes used to indicate a combination of investigative methods and techniques for making a quantitative assessment of toxicity and the hazards of potentially toxic substances.
Regulatory dose
Biology; Toxicology
Term used by the USEPA to describe the expected dose resulting from human exposure to a substance at the level at which it is regulated in the environment.
Standard
Biology; Toxicology
That which is established as a measure or model to which others of a similar nature should conform.
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
Biology; Toxicology
Single base variation at a chromosomal locus which exists stably within populations (typically defined as each variant form being present in at least 1-2% of individuals).
