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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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acceptable risk
Biology; Toxicology
Probability of suffering disease or injury which is considered to be sufficiently small to be negligible. Note: Calculated risk of an increase of one case in a million people per year for cancer is ...
chronic
Biology; Toxicology
1. In experimental toxicology, chronic refers to mammalian studies lasting considerably more than 90 days or to studies occupying a large part of the lifetime of an organism. 2. In clinical medicine, ...
biological specimen
Biology; Toxicology
1. Organ, tissue (including blood), secretion or excretion product taken from an organism as a sample reflecting the state of the whole organism. 2. Organism taken as a sample reflecting the state of ...
content validity
Biology; Toxicology
Extent to which the measurement incorporates the domain of the phenomenon under study; for example, a measurement of functional health status should embrace activities of daily living, occupational, ...
cumulative median lethal dose
Biology; Toxicology
Estimate of the total administered amount of a substance which is associated with the death of half a population of animals when the substance is administered repeatedly in doses which are generally ...
chloracne
Biology; Toxicology
Acne-like eruption caused by exposure to certain chlorinated organic substances such as polychlorinated biphenyls or 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorooxanthrene) and other ...
benchmark concentration (BMC)
Biology; Toxicology
Statistically calculated lower 95% confidence limit on the concentration that produces a defined response (called the benchmark response or BMR, usually 5 % or 10 %) for an adverse effect compared to ...
