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Health Effects

See also: Asthma |  | Biomarkers | Birth Defects |  Childhood Cancer | Developmental Disorders | Endocrine Disorders | Infant/Fetal Mortality | Lead Poisoning | Learning Disabilities | Low Birth Weight | MCS  Neurodevelopmental Disorders | Reproductive Disorders | Respiratory Diseases |  Teratology | Toxicology |


Glossary Terms

Carcinogen
Any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer.(1)

Chronic effect
An adverse effect on a human or animal in which symptoms recur frequently or develop slowly over a long period of time.(1)

Chronic toxicity
The capacity of a substance to cause long-term poisonous human health effects.(1)

Developmental disorders/effects
Adverse effects such as altered growth, structural abnormality, functional deficiency, or death observed in a developing organism.(1)

Dose response
How a biological organism's response to a toxic substance quantitatively shifts as its overall exposure to the substance changes (e.g., a small dose of carbon monoxide may cause drowsiness; a large dose can be fatal.)(1)

Irreversible effect
Effect characterized by the inability of the body to partially or fully repair injury caused by a toxic agent.(1)

Latency
Time from the first exposure to a chemical until the appearance of a toxic effect.(1)

Mutagen/mutagenicity
An agent that causes a permanent genetic change in a cell other than that which occurs during normal genetic recombination. Mutagenicity is the capacity of a chemical or physical agent to cause such permanent alteration.(1)

Transgenerational effect
A health effect that occurs in the child or subsequent offspring of the person who is exposed to an environmental toxin/toxicant.(5)



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