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Townships of Myanmar

Townships of Myanmar, each called a myo-nay (မြို့နယ်), are the country's 330 third-level administrative divisions, where population registration, land management, and tax collection take place.

Townsquare Media

Townsquare Media (NYSE: TSQ), formerly Regent Communications, is a Purchase, New York-based radio and digital media company focused outside the top 50 U.S. markets, owning 342 radio stations, 400+ websites, Townsquare Ignite, and Townsquare Interactive.

Townsville

Townsville, North Queensland city on Cleveland Bay, largest regional city outside Queensland's southeast; population 206,260 (2025), founded 1864, named for Robert Towns, dry tropical climate, major port and defence centre.

Towpath

A towpath, also called a towing path, is a path along a canal or river where draft animals pulled boats by rope, now used for walking and cycling.

Towra Point

Towra Point: 632-hectare Ramsar wetland (site 286, listed 1984) on Botany Bay's southern shore, 16 km from Sydney; largest estuarine wetland in the Sydney Basin, holding 40% of Sydney's mangroves and 60% of its saltmarsh.

Towson University

Towson University (TU), founded 1866 as Maryland State Normal School, is Maryland's largest public comprehensive university in Towson, a Baltimore suburb; USM member, 20,072 students, 130+ undergraduate programs, ranked No. 1 public university in Maryland.

Towson, Maryland

Towson, Maryland is an unincorporated census-designated place and the county seat of Baltimore County, just north of Baltimore. Population 59,553 (2020); home to Towson University, founded 1866, with a $2.5 billion economic impact.

Toxaster

Toxaster is an extinct genus of Cretaceous heart urchins (spatangoid echinoids, family Toxasteridae) named by Agassiz in 1840, type species Spatangus retusus, ranging from the Berriasian to the Cenomanian and now considered paraphyletic.

Toxeus magnus

Toxeus magnus, formerly Myrmarachne magna, is an ant-mimicking jumping spider from Southern Asia whose mothers secrete milk from the epigastric furrow, nurse young for about 38 days, and live longer when caring for offspring.

Toxi$

Toxi$ is the stage name of Andrei Smelyansky, a Russian rapper and singer in RANDOM CREW who won the Forbes 30 Under 30 music list in 2024.

Toxic (2024 film)

Toxic (Akiplėša) is Saulė Bliuvaitė's 2024 Lithuanian debut feature about two 13-year-old girls in an industrial town who enter a modeling school; it won the Locarno Golden Leopard and IFFI Golden Peacock.

Toxic (2026 film)

Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups is a 2026 Kannada-language period gangster film directed by Geetu Mohandas, starring Yash as Raya in 1940s-1970s Goa, shot in Kannada and English, released August 26, 2026.

Toxic (song)

"Toxic" is a 2004 dance-pop single by Britney Spears from In the Zone, written by Cathy Dennis with Bloodshy & Avant and built on a sampled Bollywood string riff; a UK number 1, US number 9, and 2005 Grammy winner for Best Dance Recording.

Toxic (soundtrack)

Toxic is the soundtrack album to the 2026 Geetu Mohandas film Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups, composed by Ravi Basrur, Vishal Mishra, Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah, and Arslan Nizami; Kannada album released 13 August 2026 on Zee Music Company.

Toxic epidermal necrolysis

Drug-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN, Lyell syndrome), severe end of the SJS/TEN spectrum, a drug-triggered CD8+ T-cell reaction causing full-thickness epidermal necrosis; managed by immediate drug withdrawal, burn-unit supportive care, and debated immunomodulators.

Toxic heavy metal

Toxic heavy metal is a loose term for metals like lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic that harm health; IUPAC found in 2002 that the term has no authoritative definition.

Toxic Holocaust

Toxic Holocaust is an American speed/thrash/black metal band formed in 1999 by Joel Grind, based in Portland, Oregon, known for releases on Relapse Records and six studio albums.

Toxic masculinity

Toxic masculinity, coined in the 1980s mythopoetic men's movement and later adopted by feminists, describes harmful masculine traits such as domination, misogyny, and violence; its definition, measurement, and usefulness remain academically contested.

Toxic megacolon

Toxic megacolon, or megacolon toxicum, is a rare, life-threatening condition in which the inflamed colon dilates acutely, usually complicating ulcerative colitis or C. difficile colitis.

Toxic non-proteinogenic amino acids

Toxic non-proteinogenic amino acids are amino acids made by plants, fungi, and other organisms that do not appear in the genetic code and harm humans or animals when ingested.

Toxic oil syndrome

Toxic oil syndrome (síndrome del aceite tóxico), 1981 Spanish mass poisoning from aniline-denatured rapeseed oil illegally sold as olive oil; ~20,000 cases, >300 deaths, three-phase course, cause still unidentified.

Toxic shock syndrome

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS), also called staphylococcal or streptococcal toxic shock, is a life-threatening toxin-mediated illness from S. aureus or group A strep, marked by the 1980 superabsorbent tampon outbreak and now rare, mostly nonmenstrual cases.

Toxic Till the End

Toxic till the end is a 2024 pop-rock breakup single by ROSÉ from her album Rosie, originally titled The Ex, written with Emily Warren, Michael Pollack, and Evan Blair, with a Gilmore Girls-inspired video starring Evan Mock that passed 100 million YouTube views.

Toxic Town

Toxic Town is a 2025 Netflix four-part British limited series written by Jack Thorne, directed by Minkie Spiro, dramatizing the Corby poisonings, in which mothers won a 2009 negligence ruling over toxic waste mismanagement.

Toxicity

Toxicity: the degree to which a substance is poisonous, varying with dose, exposure route and duration, chemical structure, and individual factors; basis of toxicology and risk assessment.

Toxicity (album)

Toxicity is the second studio album by the Armenian-American metal band System of a Down, released in 2001, topping the Billboard 200 and featuring the Grammy-nominated single "Chop Suey!".

Toxicity and aposematism in poison dart frogs

Poison dart frogs do not make their own toxins: they sequester alkaloids from arthropod prey, with deadly batrachotoxins in Phyllobates and brightness serving as a warning signal to predators.

Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure

The toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) is an EPA batch extraction test, Method 1311, that leaches solid waste with acetic acid to determine if it is hazardous under RCRA.

Toxicity of aniline

Aniline (aminobenzene) is an aromatic amine used to make dyes, isocyanates, and rubber chemicals; its defining toxic effect is methemoglobinemia, and IARC classifies it as probably carcinogenic.

Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron, the poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac genus of Anacardiaceae, comprises about 33 species disjunctly distributed in East Asia and North America; all contain urushiol, causing allergic dermatitis, and some yield lacquer.