toxicology

English

Etymology

From French toxicologie, equivalent to toxico- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɒksɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

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Noun

toxicology (countable and uncountable, plural toxicologies)

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

Derived terms

• biotoxicology
• chronotoxicology
• cytotoxicology
• ecotoxicology
• endotoxicology
• genotoxicology
• ichthyotoxicology
• immunotoxicology
• mycotoxicology
• nanotoxicology
• neuropsychotoxicology
• neurotoxicology
• pharmacotoxicology
• radiotoxicology
• zootoxicology

 

Related terms

• toxicologist

Translations

scientific study of poisons and poisoning

• Afrikaans: toksikologie
• Arabic: عِلْم السُّمُوم m (ʕilm as-sumūm)
• Armenian: թունագիտություն (hy) (tʻunagitutʻyun)
• Asturian: toxicoloxía f
• Bashkir: токсикология (toksikologiya)
• Belarusian: таксікало́гія f (taksikalóhija)
• Bulgarian: токсиколо́гия f (toksikológija)
• Catalan: toxicologia f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 毒性學／毒性学 (to̍k-sèng-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 毒物學／毒物学 (zh) (dúwùxué), 毒理學／毒理学 (zh) (dúlǐxué)

• Czech: toxikologie (cs) f
• Dutch: toxicologie (nl) f
• Finnish: toksikologia (fi), myrkkyoppi
• French: toxicologie (fr) f
• Galician: toxicoloxía (gl) f
• German: Toxikologie (de) f, Giftkunde f
• Greek: τοξικολογία (el) f (toxikología)
• Hungarian: toxikológia (hu)
• Indonesian: toksikologi (id)
• Irish: tocsaineolaíocht f
• Italian: tossicologia (it) f
• Japanese: 毒物学 (ja) (どくぶつがく, dokubutsugaku)
• Kazakh: токсикология (toksikologiä)
• Korean: 독물학(毒物學) (dongmulhak)
• Kyrgyz: токсикология (toksikologiya)
• Latin: toxicologia f
• Malay: toksikologi
• Persian: زهرشناسی (zahr-šenâsi)
• Polish: toksykologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: toxicologia (pt) f
• Romanian: toxicologie (ro) f
• Russian: токсиколо́гия (ru) f (toksikológija)
• Scottish Gaelic: eòlas-nimh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: токсиколо̀гија f

  Roman: toksikològija (sh) f

• Spanish: toxicología (es) f
• Swedish: toxikologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalublasunan
• Tajik: заҳршиносӣ (tg) (zahršinosi)
• Tamil: நச்சியல் (ta) (nacciyal)
• Telugu: టాక్సికాలజీ (ṭāksikālajī)
• Thai: พิษวิทยา (th)
• Ukrainian: токсиколо́гія f (toksykolóhija)
• Vietnamese: độc chất học (毒質學)
• Welsh: tocsicoleg f