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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tachy-

Biology; Toxicology

Prefix meaning rapid as in tachycardia and tachypnoea.

tolerable risk

Biology; Toxicology

Probability of suffering disease or injury that can, for the time being, be tolerated, taking into account the associated benefits, and assuming that the risk is minimized by appropriate control ...

risk associated with a life time exposure

Biology; Toxicology

Probability of the occurrence of a specified undesirable event following exposure of an individual person from a given population to a specified substance at a defined level for the expected lifetime ...

probit

Biology; Toxicology

Probability unit obtained by adding 5 to the normal deviates of a standardized normal distribution of results from a dose response study. Note 1: Addition of 5 removes the complication of handling ...

simulation test

Biology; Toxicology

Procedure designed to predict the rate of biodegradation of a compound under relevant environmental conditions.

reverse transcription

Biology; Toxicology

Process by which an RNA molecule is used as a template to make a single-stranded DNA copy.

transcription

Biology; Toxicology

Process by which the genetic information encoded in a linear sequence of nucleotides in one strand of DNA is copied into an exactly complementary sequence of RNA.