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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food allergy

Biology; Toxicology

Hypersensitivity reaction to substances in the diet to which an individual has previously been sensitized.

occupational hygiene

Biology; Toxicology

Identification, assessment and control of physicochemical and biological factors in the workplace that may affect the health or well-being of those at work and in the surrounding community.

itai-itai disease

Biology; Toxicology

Illness (renal osteomalacia) observed in the Toyama prefecture of Japan, resulting from the ingestion of cadmium-contaminated rice. Note: Damage occurred to the renal and skeleto-articular systems, ...

dysarthria

Biology; Toxicology

Imperfect articulation of speech due to neuromuscular damage.

exposure ratio

Biology; Toxicology

In a case control study, value obtained by dividing the rate at which persons in the case group are exposed to a risk factor (or to a protective factor) by the rate at which persons in the control ...

logit

Biology; Toxicology

In competitive binding assays, the logit-log dose relationship, in which the response is defined by: R = logit (y) = lg (y/(1 – y)) where y = b/b 0 with b = fraction of tracer bound ...