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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
Conservative assessment of risk
Biology; Toxicology
Assessment of risk which assumes the worst possible case scenario and therefore gives the highest possible value for risk: risk management decisions based on this value will maximise safety.
Chronic toxicity test
Biology; Toxicology
Study in which organisms are observed during the greater part of the life span and in which exposure to the test agent takes place over the whole observation time or a substantial part thereof.
Core grade
Biology; Toxicology
Quality rating, based on standard evaluation criteria established by the US Office of Pesticide programmes regulatory agencies, given to toxicological studies after submission by registrants.
Asthma
Biology; Toxicology
Chronic respiratory disease characterised by bronchoconstriction, excessive mucus secretion and edoema of the pulmonary alveoli, resulting in difficulty in breathing out, wheezing, and cough.
Case cohort study
Biology; Toxicology
Variant of the case control study in which the controls are drawn from the same cohort as the cases but are identified before the cases develop; some of the controls may later become cases.
Compartment
Biology; Toxicology
Conceptualised part of the body (organs, tissues, cells, or fluids) considered as an independent system for purposes of modelling and assessment of distribution and clearance of a substance.
Chromosome
Biology; Toxicology
Self-replicating structure consisting of DNA complexed with various proteins and involved in the storage and transmission of genetic information; the physical structure that contains the genes.
