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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

Assimilation

Biology; Toxicology

Uptake and incorporation of substances by a living organism.

Cancer

Biology; Toxicology

Disease resulting from the development of a malignant tumor.

Desquamation

Biology; Toxicology

Shedding of an outer layer of skin in scales or shreds.

Analytic study in epidemiology

Biology; Toxicology

Study designed to examine associations, commonly putative or hypothesised causal relationships.

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) cloning

Biology; Toxicology

Replication of DNA sequences ligated into a suitable vector in an appropriate host organism.

Deterministic process

Biology; Toxicology

Phenomenon committed to a particular outcome determined by fundamental physical principles.

Absorption of radiation

Biology; Toxicology

Phenomenon in which radiation transfers some or all of its energy to matter which it traverses.

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