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Descriptor English: Toxicity Tests
Descriptor Spanish: Pruebas de Toxicidad
Descriptor pruebas de toxicidad
Scope note: Conjunto de pruebas utilizadas para determinar la toxicidad de una sustancia en sistemas vivos. Incluyen las pruebas sobre medicamentos clínicos, alimentos y contaminantes ambientales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Testes de Toxicidade
Descriptor French: Tests de toxicité
Entry term(s): Test, Toxicity
Tests, Toxicity
Toxicity Test
Tree number(s): E05.940
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018675
Scope note: An array of tests used to determine the toxicity of a substance to living systems. These include tests on clinical drugs, foods, and environmental pollutants.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; used for tests of drugs, food, environ pollutants, etc.; when the test itself is emphasized; coord IM with substance /tox (IM); toxic eff of a specific substance equals specific substance /tox
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Toxicology/methods (1975-1994)
specific substance/toxicity (1966-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
Entry Version: TOX TESTS
DeCS ID: 31999
Unique ID: D018675
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Revision Date: 1999/11/09
Toxicity Tests - Preferred
Concept UI M0027983
Scope note An array of tests used to determine the toxicity of a substance to living systems. These include tests on clinical drugs, foods, and environmental pollutants.
Preferred term Toxicity Tests
Entry term(s) Test, Toxicity
Tests, Toxicity
Toxicity Test



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