tox
English
Etymology
Clippings.
Pronunciation
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Noun
tox
- (medicine, informal) Clipping of toxicity.
- GI tox ― gastrointestinal toxicity
- (informal) Clipping of toxicology.
- His tox screen came back positive.
- 2018 September 10, Jan Hoffman, “Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal With the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.”, in The New York Times:
- “How are you going to have a conversation around the patient’s positive tox screen results?” asked Dr. Lidya H. Wlasiuk, who teaches addiction awareness and interventions here at Boston University School of Medicine.
Adjective
tox (not comparable)
- (medicine, informal) Affected by toxin; intoxicated; toxicological.
- crashing tox patient
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *to-.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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Further reading
- “tox” in Obastan.com.
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