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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.
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Toxicology
Critical organ concentration of a substance
Biology; Toxicology
Mean concentration of a substance in the critical organ at the time the substance reaches its critical concentration in the most sensitive type of cell in the organ.
Bio-elimination
Biology; Toxicology
Removal, usually from the aqueous phase, of a test substance in the presence of living organisms by biological processes supplemented by physico-chemical reactions.
Apoptosis
Biology; Toxicology
Active process of programmed cell death, requiring metabolic energy, often characterised by fragmentation of DNA, and cell deletion without associated inflammation.
Analogue metabolism
Biology; Toxicology
Process by which a normally non-biodegradable compound is biodegraded in the presence of a structurally similar compound which can induce the necessary enzymes.
Adsorption factor
Biology; Toxicology
Ratio of the amount of substance adsorbed at the interface of a condensed and a liquid or gaseous phase to the total amount of the substance available for adsorption.
Area under the curve (AUC)
Biology; Toxicology
Area between a curve and the abscissa (horizontal axis), i. e., the area underneath the graph of a function: often, the area under the tissue (plasma) concentration curve of a substance expressed as ...
Anthropogenic
Biology; Toxicology
1. Caused by or influenced by human activities. 2. Describing a conversion factor used to calculate a dose or concentration affecting a human that has been derived from data obtained with another ...