TOXICOLOGY
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
• TOXICOLOGY (noun)
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)
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