Quantity where a substance will produce a harmful effect. See toxic concentration .
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TOXIC DOSE LOW (LDL)
Smallest amount of a toxic substance that will have an adverse effect .
TOXIC WASTE
A financial move that is considered very risky. It is hard to sell to investors.
TOXICAL
Poisonous; containing poison.
TOXICANT
A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxica- tion or poisoning.
TOXICATE
To poison. Not used to describe the act of one who administers a poison, but the action of the drug or poison itself.
TOXICITY
Total of all affects that are adverse to living organisms and is expressed as a dose of exposure.
TOXICITY ASSESSMENT
Effects and properties of a toxic substance, mainly dose required to have an effect.
TOXICITY PROFILE
Toxicological portrait of harmful nature a substance exhibits based on different exposure levels using different entry routes and effects to health. Also known as toxicological profile.
TOXICITY TESTING
Evaluation, interpretation and evaluation of harmful effects from a substance by the testing on fish, small mammals or invertebrate animals and extrapolating results to humans and other animals.
TOXICOLOGY
The science of poisons; that department of medical science which treats of poisons, their effect, their recognition , their antidotes, and generally of the diagnosis and therapeutics of poisoning.
TOXIN
In its widest sense, this term may denote auy poison or toxicant; but as used in pathology and medical jurisprudence it signifies, in general, any diffusible alka- loidal substance (as, […]
TRACE A
In old English law . The track or trace of a felon, by which he was pursued with the hue and cry ; a foot-step, hoof- print, or wheel-track. Bract, […]
TRACE ELEMENTS
Elements such as cobalt, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, selenium occurring in very small amounts, often less than 1 to 10 parts per million, necessary for a living organisms growth, health […]
TRACEABILITY
1. Accounting. Ability of tracking a piece of financial information in recorded data or with an audit trail . 2. Cost accounting. Ability of assigning a direct cost to an […]
TRACEABLE COST
Expense assigned to an activity or cost object based on cause and effect relationships.
TRACER
Inquiry that is started to trace a piece of information back to the document it originated from, or to find a shipments that is lost or delayed.
TRACING
1. Accounting. Following a pike of information back to the document it originated in.2. Cost accounting. Assigning a cost to an activity based on cause and effect.
TRACK RECORD
Builder’s or developer’s reputation to produce in an economical and timely basis.
TRACKING ERROR
The difference between a portfolios actual performance and its target. Indexing is used to minimize error. AKA tracking risk.
TRACKING STOCK
Stock with no voting or ownership rights. It is traded and priced independantly of a companies primary stock offerings..
TRACT
A lot, piece or parcel of land, of greater or less size, the term not importing. in itself, any precise dimension. See Edwards v. Derrickson, 2.8 N. J. Law, -15. […]
TRACT HOUSE
A house in a development that is similar to other houses in the area.
TRAD AS IN B ALLIUM
You deliver to bail. In old English practice. The name of a writ which might be issued in behalf of a party who, upon the writ de odio ct alia, […]
TRADE
The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; traffic; barter. Webster; May v. Sloan, 101 U. S. 237, 25 L. […]