Forensic Toxicology

Toxicology is the study of ______.  Toxicologists study the ______  effects these substances have on the body.

• medicines, harmful
• poisons, beneficial
• poisons, harmful
• medicines, beneficial

Forensic toxicology is the science of _____ and _____ drugs and poisons a person may have used medicinally, recreationally, and/or criminally.

• dosing, interactions of
• investigating, toxicity
• identifying, dosing
• detecting, identifying

Which of the following is a correct list of how exposure to toxins can occur?

• inhaling, injecting, excreting, absorbing
• inhaling, injecting, absorbing, ingesting
• injecting, inhaling, excreting, ingesting
• absorbing, inhaling, excreting, ingesting

Toxicity is

• the study of poisons
• the study of how drugs interact
• the extent to which a substance is poisonous
• the study of how much of a poison you can take before it kills you

Toxicity can be affected by (choose the best answer)

• dosage and duration
• duration and interactions with other drugs
• dosage, duration and how the drug was taken
• dosage, duration, how the drug was taken and interactions

Poisoning that occurs in small doses over long periods of time is called

• acute poisoning
• chronic poisoning

Poisoning that occurs in large doses over a short period time

• acute poisoning
• chronic poisoning

An example of an acute poison is ______, while an example of a chronic poison is ______.

• mercury, lead

• lead, cyanide

• cyanide, methanol

• mercury, cyanide

The dose of a substance that kills half the test population:

• LT50

• LD50

• LDlo

• LTlo

Presumptive color test for cyanide:

• red

• blue

• yellow

• green