Injury or Poisoning
occupational exposure
oc·cu·pa·tion·al ex·po·sure
Subclass of:
Environmental Exposure
Definitions related to occupational exposure:
  • The exposure to agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • The exposure to potentially harmful agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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