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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
relative systemic availability
Biology; Toxicology
Quantity of metabolizable substance divided by product of quantity of absorbed substance and exposure.
reference value
Biology; Toxicology
Quantity value, generally accepted as having a suitably small measurement uncertainty, to be used as a basis for comparison with values of quantities of the same kind.
reactive nitrogen species (RNS)
Biology; Toxicology
Radical nitrogen-based molecules that can act to facilitate nitrosylation reactions; reactive nitrogen species include dioxidonitrogen(•) (nitrogen dioxide, nitryl radical) NO2•, oxidonitrogen(•) ...
therapeutic index
Biology; Toxicology
Ratio between toxic and therapeutic doses (the higher the ratio, the greater the safety of the therapeutic dose).
precursor
Biology; Toxicology
Substance from which another, usually more biologically active, substance is formed.
slimicide
Biology; Toxicology
Substance intended to kill slime-producing organisms. Note: Used on paper stock, water cooling systems, paving stones etc.
reproductive toxicant
Biology; Toxicology
Substance or preparation that produces non-heritable adverse effects on male and female reproductive function or capacity and on resultant progeny.
