toxicological
adjective
tox·i·co·log·i·cal
ˌtäk-si-kə-ˈlä-ji-kəl 
variants
or less commonly toxicologic
: of or relating to toxicology or toxins
Examples of toxicological in a Sentence
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The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has a toxicological profile for PFAS.
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Kathryn Crawford, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2024
If a definitive cause of death cannot be determined by an autopsy — something that happens about 30 percent of the time — pathologists will order microscopic, chemical, or toxicological tests to help find the answer.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
Individual chemistries have different physical, chemical, and toxicological properties, as well as differing uses.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
Overview on the radiological, toxicological, and microbiological characteristics of the ACB mummy.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
Exposure to large amounts of hexavalent chromium is associated with lung cancer, according to a toxicological review of the substance by the Environmental Protection Agency, which evaluated decades of workplace exposures in people who worked in chrome plating and chromate pigment plants.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
Quantitation has long been completed in biological fluids for toxicological analyses to help determine impairment or cause of death, but it is rarely employed in drug chemistry or public health, when critical information about the actual powder or pill could be obtained.
—Edward Sisco, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
Hess, the Arizona coroner, said determining environmental heat was a factor in someone's death is difficult and can take weeks or even months of investigation including toxicological tests.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
Results from toxicological tests that can takes weeks or months after an autopsy is conducted could eventually result in many deaths listed as under investigation as heat associated being changed to confirmed.
—Anita Snow, Fortune, 30 July 2023
Kathryn Crawford, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2024
If a definitive cause of death cannot be determined by an autopsy — something that happens about 30 percent of the time — pathologists will order microscopic, chemical, or toxicological tests to help find the answer.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
Individual chemistries have different physical, chemical, and toxicological properties, as well as differing uses.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
Overview on the radiological, toxicological, and microbiological characteristics of the ACB mummy.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
Exposure to large amounts of hexavalent chromium is associated with lung cancer, according to a toxicological review of the substance by the Environmental Protection Agency, which evaluated decades of workplace exposures in people who worked in chrome plating and chromate pigment plants.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
Quantitation has long been completed in biological fluids for toxicological analyses to help determine impairment or cause of death, but it is rarely employed in drug chemistry or public health, when critical information about the actual powder or pill could be obtained.
—Edward Sisco, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
Hess, the Arizona coroner, said determining environmental heat was a factor in someone's death is difficult and can take weeks or even months of investigation including toxicological tests.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
Results from toxicological tests that can takes weeks or months after an autopsy is conducted could eventually result in many deaths listed as under investigation as heat associated being changed to confirmed.
—Anita Snow, Fortune, 30 July 2023
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toxicological
adjective
tox·i·co·log·i·cal
-kə-ˈläj-i-kəl
variants
or toxicologic
: of or relating to toxicology or toxins
a toxicological examination
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