toxicology
/ˌtɒksɪˈkɒlədʒi
/noun [mass noun]
The branch of science concerned with the nature, effects, and detection of poisons.This book represents an important contribution to neurology, toxicology and pharmacology....
- Development of the science of metal toxicology has been seriously hindered by the use of incorrect terminology.
- It was divided into internal medicine, diseases of the head, surgery, toxicology, etc.
Derivatives
toxicological
/ adjective ...- Inasmuch as chemical properties determine toxicological properties, metalloids should not be considered as a subset of metals but as a subset of nonmetals.
- In particular, it will be necessary to determine whether a gene product is of pharmacological or toxicological importance and whether individual allelic variants are of therapeutic importance.
- Very few other chemicals have been given such extensive scrutiny, and there is still no epidemiological or human toxicological evidence to impugn DDT.
toxicologically
- The second step involved adsorption of the toxicologically safe anionic dyes fast green and naphthol yellow S to the clay complexes.
- It contains the ethyl mercury radical attached to the sulfur group of thiosalicylate and is believed to behave toxicologically like other ethyl mercury compounds.
- In each case, samples of femoral venous blood and urine obtained at autopsy were toxicologically analyzed to determine alcohol concentrations.
toxicologist
/ noun ...- After 48 hours, the fish were removed and their brains studied for evidence of lipid peroxidation, a tissue-burning chemical reaction that toxicologists use as a standard of biological damage.
- With the advantage of hindsight, it is remarkable that for so many years toxicologists have largely ignored chemical speciation of metals.
- Dr Sunderman was a Renaissance man with accomplishments as a physician, clinical scientist, toxicologist, author, editor, violinist, poet, and photographer.