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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
Hazardous production factor
Biology; Toxicology
Production factor the effect of which on a worker under certain conditions results in injury or some impairment of health.
Parasympathomimetic
Biology; Toxicology
Producing effects resembling those caused by stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system.
Immune complex
Biology; Toxicology
Product of an antigen-antibody reaction that may also contain components of the complement system.
Fertility toxicant
Biology; Toxicology
Produces abnormalities of male or female reproductive functions or impairs reproductive capacity.
Singular focus in neoplasia
Biology; Toxicology
Small groups of cells distinguishable, in appearance or histochemically, from the surrounding tissue: indicative of an early stage of a lesion that may lead to the formation of a neoplastic nodule.
Foci in neoplasia
Biology; Toxicology
Small groups of cells distinguishable, in appearance or histochemically, from the surrounding tissue: indicative of an early stage of a lesion that may lead to the formation of a neoplastic nodule.
Gnotobiote
Biology; Toxicology
Specially reared laboratory animal whose microflora and microfauna are specifically known in their entirety.
