toxicant

IPA: tˈɑksɪkʌnt

Examples of "toxicant" in Sentences

Ability of environmental toxicant trichloroethylene to promote immune pathology is strain-specific.
A "developmental toxicant, immunotoxicant, reproductive toxicant, respiratory toxicant, skin or sense organ toxicant."
I'm thinking something deemed a "developmental toxicant" is probably not a good thing in any amount and it's definitely not good in the thousands-of-gallons.
Exposure to a metabolite of the environmental toxicant trichloroethylene attenuates CD4+ T cell activation-induced cell death by metalloproteinase-dependent FasL shedding.
A "reproductive toxicant" that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says targets organs like the "eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, [and] reproductive system."
But two years ago, California's Development and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee of physicians voted unanimously that BPA should not be classified as a dangerous toxicant because there was no evidence of harm to humans.
We do know that there are some very nasty chemicals in fracking fluid, like formamide, a "reproductive toxicant" that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says targets organs like the "eyes, skin, respiratory system, central nervous system, [and] reproductive system," and isopropanol which is a main ingredient in household glass cleaners.