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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Cohort

Biology; Toxicology

Component of the population born during a particular period and identified by period of birth so that its characteristics (such as causes of death and numbers still living) can be ascertained as it ...

Cytokine

Biology; Toxicology

Any of a group of soluble proteins that are released by a cell causing a change in function or development of the same cell (autocrine), an adjacent cell (paracrine), or a distant cell (endocrine); ...

Cluster sampling

Biology; Toxicology

1. A method of sampling in which the population is divided into aggregates (or clusters) of items bound together in a certain manner. A sample of these clusters is taken at random and all the items ...

Health

Biology; Toxicology

1. State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 2. State of dynamic balance in which an individual's or a group's capacity to cope ...

Embryotoxicity

Biology; Toxicology

1. Production by a substance of toxic effects in progeny in the first period of pregnancy between conception and the foetal stage. 2. Any toxic effect on the conceptus as a result of prenatal ...

Embryo

Biology; Toxicology

1. Stage in the developing mammal at which the characteristic organs and organ systems are being formed: for humans, this involves the stages of development from the second to the eighth week ...

Genomics

Biology; Toxicology

1. Science of using DNA and RNA based technologies to demonstrate alterations in genes expression. 2. (in toxicology) Method providing information on the consequences for genes expression of ...