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English-Russian small dictionary of medicine. 2015.
English-Russian small dictionary of medicine. 2015.
Radiation poisoning — Radiation poisoning, also called radiation sickness or a creeping dose , is a form of damage to organ tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. The term is generally used to refer to acute problems caused by a large dosage of… … Wikipedia
radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… … Universalium
sievert — /see veuhrt/, Physics. n. the SI unit of dose equivalent when the absorbed dose is measured in gray. Abbr.: Sv Cf. gray2, rem. [named in honor of Swedish radiologist Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896 1966)] * * * ▪ physics unit of radiation… … Universalium
Fast neutron therapy — Intervention ICD 10 PCS D?0?5ZZ ICD 9: 92.26 Fast neutron therapy utilizes high energy neutrons typically greater than 20 MeV … Wikipedia
Equivalent dose — The equivalent absorbed radiation dose, usually shortened to equivalent dose, is a computed average measure of the radiation absorbed by a fixed mass of biological tissue, that attempts to account for the different biological damage potential of… … Wikipedia
Alpha decay — 2 less. For example:(The second form is preferred because the first form appears electrically unbalanced. Fundamentally, the recoiling nucleus is very quickly stripped of two electrons to neutralize the ionized helium cation.)An alpha particle is … Wikipedia
Neutron Capture Therapy of Cancer — Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT) is a noninvasive therapeutic modality for treating locally invasive malignant tumors such as primary brain tumors and recurrent head and neck cancer. It is a two step procedure: first, the patient is injected with a… … Wikipedia
Nuclear medicine — Intervention ICD 10 PCS C ICD 9: 92 … Wikipedia
Louis Harold Gray — (10 November 1905 9 July 1965) was a British physicist who worked mainly on the effects of radiation on biological systems, inventing the field of radiobiology as he went. A summary of his work is given below. Amongst many other achievements, he… … Wikipedia
Management of prostate cancer — Treatment for prostate cancer may involve active surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy including brachytherapy (prostate brachytherapy) and external beam radiation therapy, High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), chemotherapy, cryosurgery,… … Wikipedia
relative biological effectiveness — rel·a·tive biological effectiveness rel ət iv n the relative capacity of a particular ionizing radiation to produce a response in a biological system abbr. RBE * * * (RBE) an expression of the effectiveness of other types of radiation in… … Medical dictionary