toxicology

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Etymology

From French toxicologie, from toxico- + -logie.

Noun

toxicology (uncountable)

1. (sciences, pharmacology) The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.

Translations

scientific study of poisons and poisoning

Chinese: Mandarin: 毒物學 (zh), 毒物学 (zh) (dúwùxué) Dutch: toxicologie (nl) f. Finnish: toksikologia, myrkkyoppi French: toxicologie (fr) f. German: Toxikologie (de) f. Hungarian: toxikológia (hu) Irish: tocsaineolaíocht (ga) f. Italian: tossicologia (it) f. Japanese: 毒物学 (ja) (どくぶつがく, dokubutsugaku) Korean: 독물학 (ko) (dongmulhak) (毒物學 (ko)) Persian: زهرشناسی (fa) (zahr-šenâsi)

Polish: toksykologia (pl) f. Portuguese: toxicologia (pt) f. Romanian: toxicologie (ro) f. Russian: токсикология (ru) (toksikológija) f. Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-nimh m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: токсиколо̀гија (sh) f. Roman: toksikològija (sh) f. Spanish: toxicología (es) f. Swedish: toxikologi (sv) c. Tajik: заҳршиносӣ (tg) (zahr-šinosī)

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