toxicant
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- noun
- /ˈtɒksɪkənt/
- Specialized
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toxina
- Pesticides are a common type of toxicant that can harm beneficial insects and wildlife.
- reproductive toxicants
- toxicant exposure
- environmental toxicants
Examples
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The risk is greatest for small children, who not only are most vulnerable to toxicants but also gleefully put dirty fingers directly into their mouths.
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By statistically adjusting for maturation as indexed by TS, it is possible to estimate the effects of toxicants on testosterone independent of the effects on the timing of sexual maturation.
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However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no evidence that over- or underestimation varies with toxicant exposure.
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The NOEL is then the next lowest toxicant level at which no statistically significant response has been observed.
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Therefore, studies of the association between environmental toxicants and birth size have focused on select chemicals or a specific class of compounds.
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With regard to ecology and toxicology, oil is a complex toxicant with nonspecific effects.
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Efforts will be expended to curtail pollutants and persistent toxicants from the air, water, and land.
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Diesel exhaust contains 40 toxic chemical pollutants, 26 of which are known carcinogens or reproductive toxicants.
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CO is undetectable to the senses and causes more fatal poisonings than any other toxicant (Varon, Marik, Fromm, & Gueler, 1999).
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As a pervasive environmental toxicant, lead (Pb) particularly impairs the functions of the neural system (Bellinger 2013; Toscano and Guilarte 2005).
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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A substance that makes people, animals, or plants very ill and can cause death
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Harmful chemicals that can make people sick
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A poisonous substance that can kill or harm living things
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Something that can cause serious harm or death when swallowed, touched and breathed
How Toxic
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Morphology
Etymology
Toxicant comes from the same root as toxic and toxin, from an old Greek word toxon meaning 'bow' because people long ago put poison on arrows. So a toxicant is anything that is poisonous and can harm living things.