Similar words: motion sickness, decompression sickness, radiation syndrome, sickness, seasickness, airsickness, air sickness, radiation. Meaning: n. syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours.
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(1) Many servicemen suffered radiation sickness after the early atomic tests.
(2) Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness, some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count.
(3) Diagnostic criteria and principles of management for subacute radiation sickness from external exposure.
(4) People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Sentencedict.com
(5) Radiation sickness (or acute radiation syndrome) usually sets in after a whole-body dose of three sieverts—3,000 times the recommended public dose limit per year, Langhorst says.
(6) Many soldiers suffered radiation sickness after being present, without protection, at the early atomic tests.
(7) For some, the visit is a welcome break from medical treatment they're receiving for radiation sickness.
(8) Many were orphaned by the disaster, others still suffer radiation sickness.
(9) She said if people had masks ready available within the first hours of the disaster, they could have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which ultimately causes radiation sickness.
(10) Diagnostic criteria and principles of management for external acute radiation sickness.
(11) "What it amounts to, " said Billings, "is that The Goose can convert any radioactive isotope into a stable one. It has developed the perfect defense against radiation sickness.
(12) No medicine worked, since the only known treatment for radiation sickness was rest.
(13) As the others were recovering, Kaz fell ill with all the symptoms of radiation sickness.
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