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What does toxic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (toxicology) Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
  2. (figuratively) Negative; harmful.
  3. (medicine) Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
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Some of the more potent of these chemicals also bioaccumulate up the food chain and end up in toxic amounts in marine mammals.
While trifluoperazine was not associated with any toxic effects, only three cases were observed.
Other discharges include 37,000 gallons of oily bilge water and 15 gallons of toxic waste from dry-cleaning, painting and photograph-processing.
Health authorities have closed five factories which had mistakenly used the toxic sodium nitrate in their products.
It can be difficult to differentiate from bioterrorism, rapidly spreading infection or acute toxic exposure.
Treated wood shingles may leach toxic preservatives, and asphalt shingles may leach small amounts of petroleum compounds.

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