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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limit value (LV)

Biology; Toxicology

Limit concentration at or below which Member States of the European Community must set their environmental quality standard and emission standard for a particular substance according to Community ...

European Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances (EINECS)

Biology; Toxicology

List of all substances supplied either singly or as components in preparations to persons in a Member State of the European Community on any occasion between 1 January 1971 and 18 September 1981.

disease

Biology; Toxicology

Literally, dis-ease, lack of ease; pathological condition that presents a group of symptoms peculiar to it and which establishes the condition as an abnormal entity different from other normal or ...

explant

Biology; Toxicology

Living tissue removed from its normal environment and transferred to an artificial medium for growth.

ischemia

Biology; Toxicology

Local deficiency of blood supply and hence oxygen to an organ or tissue owing to constriction of the blood vessels or to obstruction.

hematoma

Biology; Toxicology

Localized accumulation of blood, usually clotted, in an organ, space, or tissue, due to a failure of the wall of a blood vessel.

lgKow

Biology; Toxicology

Logarithm to the base 10 of the partition coefficient of a substance between octan-1-ol and water. Note: This is used as an empirical measure for lipophilicity in calculating bioaccumulation, fish ...