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.
However, radiation exposure carries potential health risk to patients and operators alike.
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She survived, but had health problems as a result of radiation therapy.
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Therefore, we are left with three possible ways of avoiding radiation buildup.
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As a result, most patients today are treated with conventional radiation therapy.
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To this day, areas of Eastern Europe are still impacted by radiation.
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That leaves us no margin, even if we risk getting radiationsickness.
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Somebody was telling Daddy that they've got radiationsickness in Townsville now.
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The worst of the radiationsickness was over, and he was mending fast.
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His features, I suddenly saw, were ashen with the radiationsickness.
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Symptoms of radiationsickness may not be noticed for several days.
Uso de radiation syndrome en inglés
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Curious because Arafat didn't demonstrate the classic symptoms of acute radiationsyndrome.
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The Company's lead indications are critical limb ischemia (CLI), recovery after surgery for femoral neck fracture and acute radiationsyndrome.
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Within minutes to hours, most people exposed in these areas would begin to show signs of acute radiationsyndrome: nausea, headache, dizziness, and vomiting.
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Of the workers who tried to contain the emergency at Chernobyl, 134 suffered acute radiationsyndrome; 28 died soon afterwards.
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Fifty emergency rescue workers died from acute radiationsyndrome and related illnesses, 4,000 children and adolescents contracted thyroid cancer, nine of whom died.