Forensic toxicology is essentially a specialty area of analytical chemistry. Toxicology is the science of adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms. In general, a toxicologist detects and identifies foreign chemicals in the body, with a particular emphasis upon toxic or hazardous substances.

A descriptive toxicologist performs toxicity tests to evaluate the risk that exposure poses to humans. A mechanistic toxicologist attempts to determine how substances exert deleterious effects on living organisms. A regulatory toxicologist judges whether or not a substance has low enough risk to justify making it available to the public.

In toxicology work it is possible to access the response of an organism to a given treatment in a variety of ways. By means of the probit and the dose metameter a linear equation could be calculated by which the relationship between mortality and concentration of toxicant to which the organism is exposed could be arrived at.

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Epilepsy: A group of neurological disorders characterized by recurrent episodes of convulsive seizures, sensory disturbances, abnormal behavior, loss of consciousness, or all of these.

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