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Toxicology Exam 1
toxicology terms
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
02/06/2014
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blood-to-gas partition coefficient
 Definition
ratio of the concentration of chemical in the blood to chemical in the gas phase; unique for each gas
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stratum corneum
 Definition
uppermost layer of skin cells, densely packed and highly keratinized, "biologically inactive"
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volume of distribution (Vd)
 Definition
volume in which the amount of drug would need to be uniformly dissolved in order to produce the observed blood concentration
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