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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.
Contributors in Toxicology
Toxicology
working zone
Biology; Toxicology
Space measuring up to 2 m over the level of the floor or platform that contains a worker's permanent or temporary station.
specimen
Biology; Toxicology
Specifically selected portion of any substance, material, organism (specifically tissue, blood, urine or faeces) or environmental medium assumed to be representative of the parent substance etc. at ...
stereoselectivity
Biology; Toxicology
Specificity of chemical reactivity of stereoisomers based on their three-dimensional molecular structure.
steady state in chemistry and toxicology
Biology; Toxicology
State of a system in which the conditions do not change in time.
regression analysis
Biology; Toxicology
Statistical methods for modeling a set of dependent variables, Y, in terms of combinations of predictors, X.
reservoir in biology
Biology; Toxicology
Storage compartment from which a substance may be released with subsequent biological effects.
toxicophoric group
Biology; Toxicology
Structural moiety that upon metabolic activation exerts toxic effects: the presence of a toxicophoric group indicates only potential and not necessarily actual toxicity of a drug or other substances.
