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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Synergist in toxicology

Biology; Toxicology

Substance which contributes more than additively to a mutual effect with another substance.

Poison in toxicology

Biology; Toxicology

Substance that, taken into or formed within the organism, impairs the health of the organism and may kill it.

Procarcinogen

Biology; Toxicology

Substance that has to be metabolised before it becomes a carcinogen.

Toxicology

Biology; Toxicology

Scientific discipline involving the study of the actual or potential danger presented by the harmful effects of substances on living organisms and ecosystems, of the relationship of such harmful ...

Retrospective study

Biology; Toxicology

Research design used to test etiological hypotheses in which inferences about exposure to the putative causal factor(s) are derived from data relating to characteristics of the persons or organisms ...

Safety pharmacology

Biology; Toxicology

Science directed to the discovery, development and safe therapeutic use of biologically active substances as a result of the identification, monitoring and characterization of potentially undesirable ...

Risk de minimis

Biology; Toxicology

Risk that is negligible and too small to be of societal concern (usually assumed to be a probability below 10-5 or 10-6). Note 1: This term can also mean 'virtually safe'. Note 2: In the USA, this is ...