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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.
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Toxicology
food intolerance
Biology; Toxicology
Physiologically based reproducible, unpleasant (adverse) reaction to a specific food or food ingredient that is not immunologically based.
frame-shift mutation
Biology; Toxicology
Point mutation involving either the deletion or insertion of one or two nucleotides in a gene: by the frame shift mutation, the normal reading frame used when decoding nucleotide triplets in the gene ...
exocon
Biology; Toxicology
Portion of a conjugated metabolite that is derived from the parent molecule.
endocon
Biology; Toxicology
Portion of a conjugated metabolite which is derived from a natural product (such as a sugar, amino acid or other organic acid) of the metabolizing organism.
environmental hygiene
Biology; Toxicology
Practical control measures used to improve the basic environmental conditions affecting human health, for example clean water supply, human and animal waste disposal, protection of food from ...
environmental sanitation
Biology; Toxicology
Practical control measures used to improve the basic environmental conditions affecting human health, for example clean water supply, human and animal waste disposal, protection of food from ...
estimated environmental concentration (EEC)
Biology; Toxicology
Predicted concentration of a substance, typically a pesticide, within an environmental compartment based on estimates of quantities released, discharge patterns and inherent disposition of the ...
