Category: Health and Medicine

A poison is any substance that is harmful or deadly to living cells, even in small quantities.

A toxin, strictly speaking, is a poison that is produced naturally by living things.

However, in non-technical usage, the word toxin is often …

Poisonous describes any substance, natural or manufactured, that is harmful or deadly to living cells, even in small quantities.

Toxic, strictly speaking, refers only to poison that is produced naturally by living things.

In non-technical usage, the word toxic is …