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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
Explant
Biology; Toxicology
Living tissue removed from its normal environment and transferred to an artificial medium for growth.
European Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances (EINECS)
Biology; Toxicology
List of all substances supplied either singly or as components in preparations to persons in a Member State of the European Community on any occasion between 1 January 1971 and 18 September 1981.
Limit value (LV)
Biology; Toxicology
Limit concentration at or below which Member States of the European Community must set their environmental quality standard and emission standard for a particular substance according to Community ...
Disease
Biology; Toxicology
Literally, dis-ease, lack of ease; pathological condition that presents a group of symptoms peculiar to it and which establishes the condition as an abnormal entity different from other normal or ...
Ischemia
Biology; Toxicology
Local deficiency of blood supply and hence oxygen to an organ or tissue owing to constriction of the blood vessels or to obstruction.
Hematoma
Biology; Toxicology
Localised accumulation of blood, usually clotted, in an organ, space, or tissue, due to a failure of the wall of a blood vessel.
Exocon
Biology; Toxicology
Portion of a conjugated metabolite that is derived from the parent molecule.
