toxicology

English

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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 (cmn), 毒物学 (cmn) (dúwùxué)

• Czech: toxikologie (cs) f
• 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) 

Related terms

• toxicologist