long-term toxicity antonym acute toxicity

The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous human health effects. See also Acute toxicity.

Injury that occurs after long-term exposure to a pesticide.

Injury that occurs after long-term exposure to a pesticide.

Adverse effects of a pesticide which arise from chronic exposure or which persist or appear long after short term exposure.

Adverse (chronic) effects resulting from repeated doses of or exposures to a substance over a relatively prolonged period of time. Importance: Ordinarily used to denote effects in experimental animals [..]

According to 16 CFR 1500.3 [Title 16 -- Commercial Practices; Chapter II -- Consumer Product Safety Commission; Subchapter C -- Federal Hazardous Substances Act Regulations; Part 1500 -- Hazardous Sub [..]

The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous health effects in humans, animals, fish, and other organisms. (See: acute toxicity.)

The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous health effects in humans, animals, fish, and other organisms. (See: acute toxicity.)

prolonged effects that can occur following exposure to a poison; difficult to characterize, precisely because of variability among subjects and lag time between cause and effect

The capacity of a biologically active agent to produce toxic effects following long-continued or numerous brief exposures, or to produce effects which persist whether they occur immediately upon exposure or are delayed.

the ability of a substance to cause long-term poisonous human health effects

Adverse (chronic) effects resulting from repeated doses of, or prolonged exposure to, a substance over a relatively prolonged period, with resulting long-term, poisonous human health effects.

The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous health effects in humans, animals, fish, and other organisms.

Adverse health effects from repeated doses of a toxic chemical or other toxic substance over a relatively prolonged period of time, generally greater than one year.

 a toxic effect which occurs after repeated or prolonged exposure. Chronic effects may occur some time after exposure has ceased. cocarcinogen:

Toxicity associated with exposure to small or moderate concentrations of chemicals, sometimes over a long period of time. The damages may be biochemical or anatomical, and may include the development of a lethal disease, such as cancer. Compare with acute toxicity.