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health-environment relationship > health hazard > toxicity > cytotoxicity

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cytotoxicity  

Definition

  • The degree to which an agent possesses a specific destructive action on certain cells or the possession of such action; used particularly in referring to the lysis of cells by immune phenomena and to antineoplastic drugs that selectively kill dividing cells.

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http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/1946

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