toxic

Usage

• toxicity

  The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness.

• toxicology

  The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.

• antitoxin

  A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

• detox

  the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified; -- often used attributively.

• detoxification

  a medically supervised treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to rid the body of the addictive substances.

• intoxicant

  That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

• intoxicate

  to drink so much alcohol that bodily impairment temporarily follows

• intoxicating

  Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.

• nontoxic

  Not toxic.

• toxemia

  the condition of having poisonous substances in the blood

• toxin

  A poisonous product formed by an organism, such as a pathogenic bacterium, a plant or an animal, usually having a high molecular weight, often a protein or a polysaccharide, but occasionally a low-molecular weight agent such as tetrodotoxin.