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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
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.
systematic sample
Biology; Toxicology
Subset selected according to some simple rule such as specified date or alphabetic classification.
pro-pesticide
Biology; Toxicology
Substance applied in a form that is not active as a pesticide and which becomes active once it enters an organism and undergoes chemical modification.
stochastic effect
Biology; Toxicology
Phenomenon pertaining to or arising from chance, and hence obeying the laws of probability.
stochastic process
Biology; Toxicology
Phenomenon pertaining to or arising from chance, and hence obeying the laws of probability.
reserve capacity
Biology; Toxicology
Physiological or biochemical capacity that may be available to maintain homeostasis when the body or an organism is exposed to an environmental change.
