Occupation or Discipline
toxicology Audio
tox·i·col·o·gy [ tok-si-kol-uh-jee ]
Subclass of:
Biological Science Disciplines; Health Occupations
Definitions related to toxicology:
  • (tox) Toxicology is the study of the adverse effects of chemical, physical or biological agents on people, animals, and the environment.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Science concerned with the detection, chemical composition, and biological action of toxic substances or poisons and the treatment and prevention of toxic manifestations.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The science concerned with the detection, chemical composition, and biological action of toxic substances or poisons and the treatment and prevention of toxic manifestations.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The study of poisons, including the source, effect, and treatment of poisoning. It is a branch of pharmacology (the study of drugs).
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Toxicology is the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Toxicology, study of poisons and their effects, particularly on living systems. Because many substances are known to be poisonous to life (whether plant, animal, or microbial), toxicology is a broad field, overlapping with biochemistry, histology, pharmacology, pathology, and many other...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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