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toxicology

toxicology

51 6.3
The study of poisons, how to find them and how to treat them
  • noun
  • /ˌtɒksɪˈkɒlədʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : toxicología
  • This is part of the toxicology studies that we are doing, you know, to get FDA approval for different things.
  • environmental toxicology
  • medical toxicology
  • a toxicology report

This one was Doctor Chris Martenson, again, his PhD in pathology and toxicology.

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Examples

  • She gets a copy of the toxicology report.

  • - What about the toxicology results? - Multiple injections.

  • Well, the toxicology test will be done in two weeks.

  • I got the toxicology test results back after my... Incident.

  • I saw the toxicology report, she was clean.

  • At the time, he was teaching environmental toxicology at Miami State University.

    Academic text (1993)
  • I faxed the toxicology report you ordered.

  • So we decided to expand our toxicology screen to look for drugs other than the usual hormones.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • More research in humans is essential, says Carmen Marsit, an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Dartmouth University.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The toxicology report confirmed that the victim had ingested a lethal dose of poison.

How Specialized

toxicology
  • Specialized
51 6.3
pharmacology
  • Specialized
9 6.1
biology
251 2.5
science
1.3

Surface Forms

toxicology singular
toxicologies plural

Morphology

toxicology = toxic (transparent) = toxic + ology

The word is transparently built from 'toxic' plus '-ology', meaning the study of poisons or toxic substances.

Etymology

Toxicology comes from the Greek root toxic- meaning 'poison' and the ending -ology meaning 'study of', the same ending as in biology. So toxicology is the study of poisons and how they affect living things.