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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
antigen
Biology; Toxicology
Substance or a structural part (epitope) of a substance which causes the immune system to produce specific antibody or specific cells and which combines with specific binding sites (epitopes) on the ...
decipol
Biology; Toxicology
Unit of perceived air quality: air on mountains or the sea has a decipol = 0.01; city air with moderate air pollution has a decipol = 0.05- 0.03; acceptable indoor air quality has decipol ...
area under the curve (AUC)
Biology; Toxicology
Area between a curve and the abscissa (horizontal axis), i. e., the area underneath the graph of a function: often, the area under the tissue (plasma) concentration curve of a substance expressed as ...
anthropogenic
Biology; Toxicology
1. Caused by or influenced by human activities. 2. Describing a conversion factor used to calculate a dose or concentration affecting a human that has been derived from data obtained with another ...
decontamination
Biology; Toxicology
Process of rendering harmless (by neutralization, elimination, removal etc.) a potentially toxic substance in the natural environment, laboratory areas, the workplace, other indoor areas, clothes, ...
concurrent validity
Biology; Toxicology
Measurement and its criterion refer to the same point in time: an example would be a visual inspection of a wound for evidence of infection validated against bacteriological examination of a specimen ...
diffusion
Biology; Toxicology
Spontaneous differential movement of components in a system. Note: In molecular terms, the driving force for diffusion is random thermal motion. In thermodynamic terms, the driving force is a ...
