Information Package / Course Catalogue
Toxicology
Course Code: KZM104
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To give the necessary information for poison, poisoning, toxic dose and mechanism of action of the major poisons and hygiene in working environment.

Course Content

The entry, distribution, biotransformation and excretion of poisonous substances into the body, the mode of action of poisons, lead, mercury, arsenic, antimony, cadmium, barium, etc. Metal and its salts, carbon monoxide, hydrogyanide, sulfuric hydrogen, phosgene etc. Gases, hydrocarbons, aliphatic halogenated hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, aliphatic aromatic amines, alcohols, esters, amines and organic sulfur compounds, their toxicity, mode of action, and hygienic conditions.

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