xenobiotic

10 letters in word "xenobiotic": B C E I I N O O T X.

No anagrams for xenobiotic found in this word list.

• Definitions:
• A chemical which is not a natural component of the living organism exposed to it.
• Chemical substances that are foreign to the biological system. They include naturally occurring compounds, drugs, environmental agents, carcinogens, insecticides, etc.
• A chemical compound that is not produced by living organisms; a manufactured chemical compound.
• (xeno·bi·ot·ic) (zen”o-bi-ot´ik) a chemical foreign to a given biologic system.
• A key term in toxicology (means foreign substance) is used to identify clearly toxic substances, such as lead, or beneficial therapeutic agents, many of which become toxic at elevated dosage levels. [CHI report Toxicogenomics: The Promise of Safer, Smarter Drug Development
• A synthetic chemical that affects living systems.
• A term for non-natural or man-made substances found in the environment (ie, synthetics, plastics).
• The scientific term for toxic substances, meaning literally "foreign to life."
• A xenobiotic is a chemical which is found in an organism but which is not normally produced or expected to be present in it. It can also cover substances which are present in much higher concentrations than are usual.

• xenium ←
• xenic ←
• xenias ←
• xenobiotic
• → xenobiotics
• → xenocryst
• → xenocrysts