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toxicology

Branch of medicine dealing with the study of poisons. This includes the chemical nature of poisons, their origin and preparation, their physiological action, tests to recognize them, pathological changes due to their presence, their antidotes, and their recognition by post-mortem evidence.
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Indeed the science of toxicology was never so ill-understood as now.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
I fancy, so far as my toxicology carries me, that there are some vegetable nerve poisons----"
The Poison Belt by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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