| 单词 | radiation sickness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasradiation sickness radiation sickness n. Medicine a syndrome caused by overexposure (usually of the whole body) to ionizing radiation, with dose-dependent manifestations ranging from nausea, vomiting, and anorexia to pancytopenia (reduction in blood cells of all types) and death. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > radiation radium burn1908 radiation sickness1924 tolerance dose1925 radionecrosis1928 radiation burn1931 radiation injury1931 1924 Lancet 15 Mar. 533/1 The chief consideration at present in the consideration of the causation of radiation ‘sickness’ or toxæmia centres on the more essential biochemical changes resulting from radiation. 1930 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 29 Aug. 8/7 A cure for ‘radiation sickness’, which has been a major obstacle to giving cancer patients x-ray treatments, was announced today by the American Medical association. 1978 Sci. Amer. May 49/3 10 percent of the people exposed to 150 rads will die from radiation sickness. 1991 Sanity Jan. 22/2 It wasn't really done to say that what you were frightened of was burning to death, radiation sickness, the nuclear winter, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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