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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amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP)

Biology; Toxicology

Serious illness which is a consequence of consumption of bivalve shellfish (mollusks) such as mussels, oysters and clams that have ingested, by filter feeding, large quantities of micro-algae ...

allometric growth

Biology; Toxicology

Regular and systematic pattern of growth such that the mass or size of any organ or part of a body can be expressed in relation to the total mass or size of the entire organism according to the ...

contaminant

Biology; Toxicology

1. Minor impurity present in a substance. 2. Extraneous material inadvertently added to a sample prior to or during chemical or biological analysis 3. In some contexts, as in relation to gas cleaning ...

crepitations

Biology; Toxicology

Abnormal respiratory sounds heard on auscultation of the chest, produced by passage of air through passages which contain secretion or exudate or which are constricted by spasm or a thickening of ...

concentration

Biology; Toxicology

1. Any one of a group of three quantities characterizing the composition of a mixture and defined as one of mass, amount of substance (chemical amount) or number divided by volume, giving, ...

compensation

Biology; Toxicology

Adaptation of an organism to changing conditions of the environment (especially chemical) is accompanied by the emergence of stresses in biochemical systems which exceed the limits of normal ...

pseudo-adaptation

Biology; Toxicology

Adaptation of an organism to changing conditions of the environment (especially chemical) is accompanied by the emergence of stresses in biochemical systems which exceed the limits of normal ...