Letter T

Toxic syndrome

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The ensemble of the signs and symptoms of the disorder resulting from exposure to a toxic agent.

There are many toxic syndromes.

There is a toxic syndrome for ricin or abrin poisoning; a toxic syndrome for arsine or stibine poisoning; a toxic syndrome for riot control agents; a toxic syndrome for vesicant (blister) agents; an organic dust toxic syndrome; and so on.

For instance, see: Vesicant

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