toxicity
nounUK /tɒkˈsɪs.ə.ti/ · US /tɑkˈsɪs.ə.ti/
Etymology From toxic + -ity.
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Usually The quality or degree of being toxic.
- The toxicity of the various salts is different for different species of plant and animal life.1898, Francis Edmund Anstie, Henry Lawson, The Practitioner, page 300:
- Thus far, toxicity of nickel to plants has been observed only on acid soils.2005, V. P. Singh, Metal Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants and Animals, Sarup & Sons, →ISBN, page 51:
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- Researchers tested the toxicity of the chemical compound.
- The online discussion quickly descended into toxicity.
- High levels of mercury can cause severe toxicity.
- drug toxicity
- Derived terms
80 terms
acidotoxicity, acute toxicity, antitoxicity, autotoxicity, biotoxicity, chemotoxicity, chondrotoxicity, chronic toxicity, chronotoxicity, coagulotoxicity, cryotoxicity, cytotoxicity, digitoxicity, ecotoxicity, embryotoxicity, endotoxicity, enterotoxicity, equitoxicity, excitotoxicity, fertotoxicity, fetotoxicity, fish acute toxicity syndrome, gastrotoxicity, genotoxicity, gliotoxicity, glucolipotoxicity, glucotoxicity, glycotoxicity, gonadotoxicity, haematotoxicity, haemotoxicity, hematotoxicity, hemotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, hepatoxicity, histotoxicity, hypertoxicity, hypotoxicity, ichthyotoxicity, immunotoxicity, leucotoxicity, leukotoxicity, lipotoxicity, lymphotoxicity, maternotoxicity, mixtoxicity, monotoxicity, mycotoxicity, myelotoxicity, myotoxicity, nanotoxicity, nematotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, nontoxicity, osmotoxicity, osteotoxicity, ototoxicity, ovotoxicity, oxygen toxicity, pharmacotoxicity, phototoxicity, phytotoxicity, pneumotoxicity, proteotoxicity, psychotoxicity, pulmonotoxicity, pulmotoxicity, renotoxicity, retinotoxicity, rhizotoxicity, ribotoxicity, splenotoxicity, subtoxicity, synaptotoxicity, thyrotoxicity, urotoxicity, vasculotoxicity, vestibulotoxicity, xenotoxicity