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Definition of Detoxication
1. Noun. (biochemistry) Any metabolic process by which the toxicity of a material is reduced ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) Any treatment of a patient suffering from poisoning that promotes physiological process to reduce the effects ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detoxication
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Detoxication
1. 1. Recovery from the toxic effects of a drug. 2. Removal of the toxic properties from a poison. 3. Metabolic conversion of pharmacologically active principles to pharmacologically less active principles. Synonym: detoxification. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detoxication
Literary usage of Detoxication
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiology and biochemistry in modern medicene by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"The detoxication Compounds Certain nocuous substances are produced in the intestine
during the digestive process (see page 535), and others may result from ..."
2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"E.—CASTRO-INTESTINAL TOXINES—detoxication. The question of the formation of
poisons in the intestinal tract, which has recently obtained considerable ..."
3. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"detoxication. — How does this gland exert its influence over the metabolism?
A great majority of authors believe that the gland has a detoxicating action ..."
4. Lectures on Chemical Pathology in Its Relation to Practical Medicine by Christian Archibald Herter (1902)
"... on metals and metalloids—Action on digestive products— Nature of the processes
involved in detoxication—Action of the liver on bacteria—Effects of ..."
5. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"The detoxication theory, although in an essentially modified form, again greets
us in the view last-mentioned. In this form, however, there is as little ..."
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