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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
Second messenger
Biology; Toxicology
Intracellular effector substance increasing or decreasing as a result of the stimulation of a receptor by an agonist, considered as the 'first messenger'.
Risk communication
Biology; Toxicology
Interpretation and communication of risk assessments in terms that are comprehensible to the general public or to others without specialist knowledge.
Pollution
Biology; Toxicology
Introduction of pollutants into a solid, liquid, or gaseous environmental medium, the presence of pollutants in a solid, liquid, or gaseous environmental medium, or any undesirable modification of ...
Zero order kinetics
Biology; Toxicology
Kinetics of a reaction in which the rate is independent of the concentration(s) of the reactants.
Ventricular fibrillation
Biology; Toxicology
Irregular heartbeat characterised by uncoordinated contractions of the ventricle.
Target population (in epidemiology)
Biology; Toxicology
1. Collection of individuals, items, measurements, etc. about which inferences are required: the term is sometimes used to indicate the population from which a sample is drawn and sometimes to denote ...
