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TOXICOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does toxicology mean?
• TOXICOLOGY (noun)
The noun TOXICOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons
Familiarity information: TOXICOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("toxicology" is a kind of...):
materia medica; pharmacological medicine; pharmacology (the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects)
Domain member category:
polyvalence; polyvalency ((toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism)
Derivation:
toxicologic; toxicological (of or relating to toxicology)
toxicologist (one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment)
Context examples
The branch of toxicology focusing on the effects of poisons on the immune system.
(Immunotoxicology, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of toxicology focusing on the health effects of inhaled poisons.
(Inhalation Toxicology, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of toxicology that tries to understand the health effects of poisons by understanding the way that genes, proteins, and molecules interact.
(Molecular Toxicology, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of toxicology that deals with adverse effects of chemical, physical or biological agents on genetic material.
(Genetic Toxicology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It is used as an animal model for Guillan-Barre syndrome in humans, toxicology, virology.
(Japanese White Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
A branch of toxicology concerned with the sources, transformations and effects on health of natural and synthetic chemicals that are present in the environment.
(Environmental Toxicology, NCI Thesaurus)
The New Zealand hybrid is commonly utilized in biomedical research, in a variety of studies including developmental toxicity studies, toxicology studies, asthma research, and antibody production.
(New Zealand Hybrid Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
Most common breed utilized in biomedical research and is used in a variety of studies including developmental toxicity studies, toxicology studies, asthma research, and antibody production.
(New Zealand White Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
Toxicology focusing on the effects of drugs on genetics material and the generation of mutations and cancer.
(Genetic Toxicology, NCI Thesaurus)
It has not yet found its way either into the pharmacopoeia or into the literature of toxicology.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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