TOXICOLOGY

Toxicology

Toxicology

Introduction

Toxicology is the branch of medicine, whose interest also extends to the chemical, which studies symptoms, mechanisms and treatment of poisoning people and animals at the hands of poisons or drugs. The main parameter to determine the toxicity of a substance is the dose: in fact, almost all substances, in certain circumstances or in certain doses can be toxic.

Discussion and Analysis

Poisoning arising in the course of work is caused because of harmful chemical substances, which are usually chronic poisoning, resulting from absorption of small doses of one or more substances harmful to health under conditions of repeated exposure. The mechanism ...