Toxicology Glossary - X

x-disease: Hyperkeratotic disease in cattle following exposure to chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, naphthalenes and related compounds.

xenobiotic:
  1. Strictly, any substance interacting with an organism that is not a natural component of that organism.
    SN exogenous substance, foreign substance or compound.
  2. Man-made compounds with chemical structures foreign to a given organism.
    Nagel et al. (eds), 1991
    SN anthropogenic substance.

Last updated: 24 May 2005
First published: 24 May 2005
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