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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
Risk that is negligible and too small to be of societal concern (usually assumed to be a probability below 10-5 or 10-6).
Note 1: This term can also mean ‘virtually safe’.
Note 2: In the USA, this is a legal term used to mean ‘negligible risk to the individual’.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Science directed to the discovery, development and safe therapeutic use of biologically active substances as a result of the identification, monitoring and characterization of potentially undesirable pharmacodynamic activities of these substances in nonclinical studies.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Science of the use and effects of drugs: may be subdivided into pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics defined above.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Scientific discipline involving the study of the actual or potential danger presented by the harmful effects of substances on living organisms and ecosystems, of the relationship of such harmful effects to exposure, and of the mechanisms of action, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of intoxications.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Scientific discipline involving the study of the chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology of toxins.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Scientific study involving research, education, prevention and treatment of diseases caused by ionizing or nonionizing radiation.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Scientific sub-discipline that combines toxicology with genomics to determine how an organism’s genetic make-up influences its response to a toxic substance.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Selected reference individuals, statistically adequate numerically to represent the reference population.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Semiochemical that is produced by one organism inducing a response in an organism of another species that is favorable to both the emitter and the responding organism.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Sequence of changes by which a benign tumor develops from the initial lesion to a malignant stage.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
