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Toxicity

Toxicity \Tox*ic"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
toxicity

"state of being toxic," 1880, from toxic + -ity.

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toxicity

n. 1 (context toxicology English) Degree to which a toxic substance may harm a cell or organism. 2 (context toxicology English) The quality of being toxic.

WordNet
toxicity
  1. n. the degree to which something is poisonous

  2. grave harmfulness or deadliness [syn: perniciousness]

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Toxicity (album)

Toxicity is the second studio album by the band System of a Down. The album was released on September 4, 2001 by Columbia Records and peaked at number one on both the Billboard 200 and the Canadian Albums Chart. Certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, the album sold at least 2,700,000 copies in the United States.

Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a substance can damage an organism. Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as an animal, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect on a substructure of the organism, such as a cell ( cytotoxicity) or an organ such as the liver ( hepatotoxicity). By extension, the word may be metaphorically used to describe toxic effects on larger and more complex groups, such as the family unit or society at large. Sometimes the word is more or less synonymous with poisoning in everyday usage.

A central concept of toxicology is that the effects of a toxin are dose-dependent; even water can lead to water intoxication when taken in too high a dose, whereas for even a very toxic substance such as snake venom there is a dose below which there is no detectable toxic effect. Toxicity is species-specific, making cross-species analysis problematic. Newer paradigms and metrics are evolving to bypass animal testing, while maintaining the concept of toxicity endpoints.

Toxicity (song)

"Toxicity" is a single by Armenian-American alternative metal band System of a Down, released in 2002. It was originally released on the album of the same name. The writing credit for the song is Malakian/ Odadjian/ Tankian. It is known for its dynamic chorus, aggressive vocals, and prominent drum beat. The song is predominately in triple meter, alternating between 6/4, 12/8 and 4/4 time. The guitar during the verse plays in 6/4 using a 2+2+2 phrasing while the heavy part ("somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep") makes use of a hemiola with the guitar switching to a 3+3+3+3 pattern while the drums remain in compound duple meter until the bridge. The song was ranked number 14 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs, and was called a nu metal classic by Stylus Magazine.

"Toxicity" is a downloadable song for the music video game series Rock Band, and is a featured track in Guitar Hero: Metallica.

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.