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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
he was suffering from radiation
How To Use radiation sickness In A Sentence
- Another 70,000 would die in the days, years and decades ahead from radiation sickness and cancer. The Sun
- Many servicemen suffered radiation sickness after the early atomic tests.
- Helping the burn victims, doctors took some time to realize that they were dealing with a new and horrifically deadly phenomenon, radiation sickness—what they called atomic bomb disease. The Story of World War II
- It uses a shell of ice to shield its inhabitants from cosmic rays, which can damage cells, increasing the risk of cancer or causing acute radiation sickness. Times, Sunday Times
- It uses a shell of ice to shield its inhabitants from cosmic rays, which can damage cells, increasing the risk of cancer or causing acute radiation sickness. Times, Sunday Times
- It uses a shell of ice to shield its inhabitants from cosmic rays, which can damage cells, increasing the risk of cancer or causing acute radiation sickness. Times, Sunday Times
- These cases of radiation sickness may, unfortunately, be irreversible and incontrovertible evidence of that.
- About the same number were to succumb to a new man-made illness, radiation sickness. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- In the decades that followed many died of radiation sickness and cancers. Times, Sunday Times
- Diagnostic criteria and principles of management for subacute radiation sickness from external exposure.