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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detoxification

Biology; Toxicology

1. Process, or processes, of chemical modification which make a toxic molecule less toxic. 2. Treatment of patients suffering from poisoning in such a way as to promote physiological processes which ...

detoxication

Biology; Toxicology

cumulative risk

Biology; Toxicology

1. Probability of a common harmful effect associated with concurrent exposure by all relevant pathways and routes of exposure to a group of substances that share a common chemical mechanism of ...

critical period of development

Biology; Toxicology

Stage of development of an organism, e.g., organogenesis in the fetus, that is of particular importance in the life cycle if the normal full development of some anatomical, physiological, metabolic, ...

bio-accumulation

Biology; Toxicology

Progressive increase in the amount of a substance in an organism or part of an organism which occurs because the rate of intake exceeds the organism's ability to remove the substance from the ...

ambient monitoring

Biology; Toxicology

Continuous or repeated measurement of agents in the environment to evaluate ambient exposure and health risk by comparison with appropriate reference values based on knowledge of the probable ...

blood-brain barrier

Biology; Toxicology

Physiological interface between brain tissues and circulating blood created by a mechanism that alters the permeability of brain capillaries, so that some substances are prevented from entering brain ...