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    A radiation burn is a damage to the skin or other biological tissue and organs as an effect of radiation. The radiation types of greatest concern are...
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    A burn is an injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ultraviolet radiation (such as sunburn). Most...
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    Sunburn (redirect from Sun burn)
    Sunburn is a form of radiation burn that affects living tissue, such as skin, that results from an overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, usually from the...
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  • Ionizing radiation (US, ionising radiation in the UK), including nuclear radiation, consists of subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that have...
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  • Microwave burns are burn injuries caused by thermal effects of microwave radiation absorbed in a living organism. In comparison with radiation burns caused...
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    Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed...
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    of approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively...
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    an unknown source of radiation, suffering radiation burns from which he would ultimately die. Although the source of radiation was never conclusively...
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  • radiation. The risk of systemic infection is higher when the organism has a combined injury, such as a conventional blast, thermal burn, or radiation...
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  • exposure. High doses can cause visually dramatic radiation burns, and/or rapid fatality through acute radiation syndrome. Controlled doses are used for medical...
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    particle radiation consists of particles of non-zero rest energy, such as alpha radiation (α), beta radiation (β), proton radiation and neutron radiation acoustic...
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  • effects of radiation other than teratogenesis, including Radiation burns Radiation-induced cancer Radiation-induced lung injury Radiation-induced thyroiditis...
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    hazard: exposure to it can cause burns, radiation sickness, many kinds of cancer, and genetic damage. Using ionizing radiation requires elaborate radiological...
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    Temperature Radiation Chronic radiation keratosis Eosinophilic, polymorphic, and pruritic eruption associated with radiotherapy Radiation acne Radiation burn Radiation-induced...
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    following table shows radiation quantities in SI and non-SI units: Geiger counter Ionizing radiation Radiation burn Radiation exposure Radiation poisoning United...
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    Shoe-fitting fluoroscope (category Radiation health effects)
    been associated with their chronic occupational exposure: a severe radiation burn requiring amputation in 1950, a case of dermatitis with ulceration in...
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  • Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster (category Deaths by acute radiation syndrome)
    Vitaly Leonenko, without regaining consciousness. Gorbachenko suffered a radiation burn on his back where Shashenok's hand was located when he helped carry...
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    Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer therapy to either kill...
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    towards Texas. A radiation-burn victim walks into Jericho from Denver, leading a rescue party to Bear Lake, but the 20 radiation-burn victims there are...
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    Fukushima nuclear accident (category Radiation accidents and incidents)
    developed cancer or leukemia. Two workers were hospitalized because of radiation burns, and several other people sustained physical injuries as a consequence...
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    Fluoroscopy (redirect from Fluoroscopy burn)
    possibility, radiation burns are not typical in standard fluoroscopic procedures. Most procedures sufficiently long in duration to produce radiation burns are...
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    Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thermal motion of particles in matter. Thermal radiation transmits as an electromagnetic...
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  • later. Only after Ivan's family's dog died, and Ivan's stepson showed radiation burn of his hands (as a result of briefly touching the cylinder), was the...
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  • Douglas Crofut (category Deaths by acute radiation syndrome)
    result of radiation burns and radiation poisoning. His death was the first of its kind in the United States since the 1940s, when radiation deaths occurred...
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  • Chronic radiation syndrome (CRS), or chronic radiation enteritis, is a constellation of health effects of radiation that occur after months or years of...
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  • Flash burn is any burn injury caused by intense flashes of light, high voltage electric current, or strong thermal radiation. These may originate from...
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    A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to...
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  • up Burn, burn, or burning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A burn is an injury to flesh caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or...
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    X-ray (redirect from Roentgen radiation)
    ionizing radiation, and exposure to high intensities can be hazardous to health, causing damage to DNA, cancer, and at high dosages, burns and radiation sickness...
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  • health effects of radiation other than teratogenesis, including Acute radiation syndrome Radiation burns Radiation-induced cancer Radiation-induced heart...
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