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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
Stratified sample
Biology; Toxicology
Subset of a population selected according to some important characteristic.
Random probability sample
Biology; Toxicology
Subset of units of a population that is arrived at by selecting units such that each possible unit has a fixed and known probability of selection.
Acute
Biology; Toxicology
1. Of short duration, in relation to exposure or effect; the effect usually shows a rapid onset. Note: In regulatory toxicology, 'acute' refers to studies where dosing is either single or limited to ...
Diarrheic shellfish poisoning (DSP)
Biology; Toxicology
Serious illness which is a consequence of consumption of bivalve shellfish (mollusks) such as mussels, oysters and clams that have ingested, by philtre feeding, large quantities of micro-algae ...
Diarrheal shellfish poisoning
Biology; Toxicology
Serious illness which is a consequence of consumption of bivalve shellfish (mollusks) such as mussels, oysters and clams that have ingested, by philtre feeding, large quantities of micro-algae ...
Comet assay
Biology; Toxicology
Means of measuring DNA damage, particularly DNA strand breaks. A cell is embedded in agar and exposed to a DNA-damaging agent. The cell is then permeabilized with a detergent and an electric field is ...
Descriptive epidemiology
Biology; Toxicology
Study of the occurrence of disease or other health-related characteristics in populations, including general observations concerning the relationship of disease to basic characteristics such as age, ...
