Toxicology

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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Auxotroph

Biology; Toxicology

Organism unable to synthesise an organic molecule which is required for its growth: when the compound is given to the organism with the other nutrients it requires, growth of the organism may occur.

Antiresistant

Biology; Toxicology

Substance used as an additive to a pesticide formulation in order to reduce the resistance of insects to the pesticide, e.g., an antimetabolite that inhibits metabolic inactivation of the pesticide.

Added risk

Biology; Toxicology

Difference between the incidence of an adverse effect in a treated group (of organisms or a group of exposed humans) and a control group (of the same organisms or the spontaneous incidence in ...