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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
critical study
Biology; Toxicology
Investigation yielding the no-observed-adverse-effect-level that is used by the USEPA as the basis of the reference dose.
pivotal study
Biology; Toxicology
Investigation yielding the no-observed-adverse-effect-level that is used by the USEPA as the basis of the reference dose.
deterministic
Biology; Toxicology
Term applied to health effects, the severity of which varies with the dose and for which a threshold is believed to exist.
bioconcentration
Biology; Toxicology
Process leading to a higher concentration of a substance in an organism than in environmental media to which it is exposed.
cometabolism
Biology; Toxicology
Process by which a normally non-biodegradable substance is biodegraded only in the presence of an additional carbon source.
critical dose
Biology; Toxicology
Dose of a substance at and above which adverse functional changes, reversible or irreversible, occur in a cell or an organ.
aphid
Biology; Toxicology
Common name for a harmful plant parasite in the family Aphididae, some species of which are vectors of plant virus diseases.
