toxicocinetics - Reflexions

toxicocinetics

From the Latin toxicum, meaning poison, and Ancient Greek kinesis meaning movement).
Toxicocinetics is the science that studies the future of toxic substances (what they become) in the organism over the course of time. The future of toxins in the organism take place in four stages:
-absorption (orally, through the lungs, or through the skin);
-distribution (the toxins pass from the circulation of the blood into the tissues and organs);
-metabolism (transformation of substances by the organism);
-elimination (urinary via the kidneys, fecal, or cutaneous by transpiration).