The degree to which something is poisonous

Usage examples of toxicity.

As Chatterton heard it, tri mix offered a fantasyland of advantages over breathing air in deep water: widened peripheral vision sharpened motor skills and coordination longer bottom times shorter decompression times reduced risk of oxygen toxicity and deep-water blackout elimination of narcosis Chatterton believed that any one of these benefits could revolutionize wreck diving in the Northeast.

Finally, they sat up, Ricky looking spectacularly handsome despite the roentgens cranking through out him in toxicity levels unparalleled.

Despite common belief, it is demonstrable that a combination of arsenic and mercuric salts does not increase in toxicity as the poison is recovered from the vomitus of one victim to the next.

Something that not only causes seizures and heart toxicity, but also, for a brief instance, parasympathetic stimulation.

These are high toxicity, rapid action, percutaneous effectiveness as well as absorption through the lungs and mucous membrane of the human body.

It was used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis, and it had been shown to reverse tetrodotoxin toxicity in some animal experiments.

The thing the adaptor molecule has for billions of years tried to articulate will, in the last click of the second hand, be channeled into massive habitat clearance, would-be property improvements, trillion-dollar toxicity, terminal annihilation.

Searches for compounds that bind to and have the desired effect on drug targets still take place mainly in a biochemist’s traditional “wet” lab, where evaluations for activity, toxicity and absorption can take years.

All the shield's workers and command crew had been dosed up with medications designed to counter radiation toxicity, such as free radicals to shield molecular lesions in DNA, and chemoprevention agents that might hinder the deadly progression from mutation to cancer.

The smothering toxicity of the dinoflagellates as they cluster and bloom into a red tide kills the diatoms.

Were well below by a factor of ten the toxicity range of botulinum toxin, the most toxic substance known to man.

The toxicity is the result of their diet, their digestive systems, and the food they eat.

Many bacteria that cause severe disease in humans, such as cholera, can have their toxicity triggered by the transfer of genetic material by lysogenic phages.

I believe this fact alone will make FDA approval a breeze since characterizing specific toxicities is what takes so damn much time.

The other was one of the familiar government-owned sprayplanes that worked at low altitudes over croplands, truck gardens, and commercial orchards, delivering a heavy mist of the deadly Tri-D solution, the pesticide that had revolutionized agriculture, eliminated the bee from nature, and given us fruits and vegetables of undreamed-of perfection but very high toxicity.