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Detoxification
Detoxification
or
detoxication
(
detox
for short) is the
physiological
or
medicinal
removal of
toxic
substances from a living
organism
, including the human body, which is mainly carried out by the liver. Additionally, it can refer to the period of
withdrawal
during which an organism returns to
homeostasis
after long-term use of an
addictive
substance. In
medicine
, detoxification can be achieved by
decontamination of poison ingestion
and the use of
antidotes
as well as techniques such as
dialysis
and (in a limited number of cases)
chelation therapy
.
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