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radiation risks (medicine)


radiation risks


The risks to Health posed by exposure to radiation. Exposure comes from both natural sources and from man-made ones (medical and occupational).

See: background radiation.Because any amount of radiation may cause cellular mutations, considerable effort has been made by government and independent researchers to establish exposure guidelines. In most cases, natural sources account for the bulk of received radiation, with artificial sources adding only a small percentage to the average annual dose. Public perception of the hazards of radiation is often at odds with scientific positions on the matter. In part, equivocal research results (as in attempts to assess the added cancer risk posed by mammograms) contribute to public fears. Some psychological studies have concluded that whether or not public fears of nuclear power plants and Other radiation sources are justified, the added stress caused by such fears in itself constitutes a threat to Health that should be addressed.


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shingle noun1. ME.
[App. from Latin scindula, earlier scandula a split piece of wood, after Greek skhidax, skhindalmos.]
A thin rectangular tile, esp. of wood, used as a roofing material or for cladding walls etc. Also, such tiles collectively. ME.
a shingle short colloq. (chiefly Austral.) of low intelligence, not very bright, stupid.
Harper Lee Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda.
gen. A piece of board. ME.
A small signboard, esp. a signboard or nameplate of a lawyer, doctor, etc. N. Amer. M19.
hang out one's shingle, set up one's shingle begin to practise a profession.
Shingled hair; a shingled hairstyle. Also, the action or an act of shingling hair. E20.
C. Beaton With her hair snipped in a short shingle.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses 'consisting of, covered or built with, shingles', as shingle house, shingle roof, etc., 'used in making shingles', as shingle machine, shingle saw, etc. Special combs., as shingleback (lizard) a slow-moving heavily built Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, with scales resembling those of pine cones; shingle cap a cap-shaped hairnet for keeping a shingled hairstyle in place; shingle-nail a nail used in building to secure shingles; shingle-oak an oak of the US, Quercus imbricaria, used to make shingles.
shingly adjective1 covered with shingles or tiles M19.