Radiation poisoning

Alternative names
Radiation sickness

Definition
Radiation sickness is illness and symptoms resulting from excessive exposure to radiation, whether that exposure is accidental or intentional (as in radiation therapy). The term also includes the side effects of exposure to radiation.

see Radiation sickness.

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