Toxicology: Poisons & Alcohol Crossword

The study of the adverse effects of chemicals or physical agents on living organisms
A substance that causes injury to the health of a living thing on contact or absorption, typically by interacting with enzymes and receptors
Continuing exposure to toxins over a long period of time, thus chronic toxicity
Occurring almost immediately (hours or days) after an exposure
Combined effect of substances that exceeds the sum of their individual effects
Combined effect of substances that decrease thier individual effects; opposite of synergism
An organic compound that complexes with a metal to form a ring structure
Lethal dose for 50% of a given population
Driving under the influence
Operating while intoxicated
Driving while intoxicated
minor in possession
Operating under the influence
The most abused drug in America
The law that defines the relationship between alcohol concentration and light absorption
The concept promoted by Paracelsus that substances that kill at high doses are actually beneficial at low doses
The law that the concentration on the breath is proportional to that in the blood
Invented in 1954
% of alcohol in the bloodstream
Developed a very sensitive and reliable test to detect arsenic in body tissues and fluids