Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The accurate measurement of doses, especially of radiation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The accurate measurement of the doses of medicines.
- noun A system of therapeutics in which treatment is directed chiefly toward the symptoms and consists in the administration of alkaloids in the form of granules at definite intervals, each granule containing a single dose of the remedy of proper amount for administration at the prescribed interval.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
measurement ofdoses , especially ofionizing radiation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Wearing a dosimetry badge on his shirt to monitor his own exposure to radiation, he stopped his truck at a spot overlooking a slope that will be used to store waste "tailings," the 91.5% of the mine's output that will be unusable.
Rare-Earth Miner in U.S. Tackles China, Its Own Past James T. Areddy 2010
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Comparisons of spore dosimetry and spectral photometry of solar-UV radiation at four sites in Japan and Europe.
Long-term change and variability in surface UV irradiance in the Arctic 2009
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Combining radioactivity and medicine, the physicists crossed the boundary of their expertise and provided scientific support to doctors over issues of radium dosimetry.
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They were forced to learn the physics of the new element, to study the way radiation is absorbed by the human body and its dosimetry, and to find the appropriate ways to measure it.
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He was not a great scientist, but he was a very nice man and had achieved a lot for the dosimetry of medical preparations and was not always acknowledged.
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His device, the chromoradiometer, attracted the interest of the international community of physicians and was tried as a dosimetry apparatus for radium as well.
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In 1902, Antoine Beclère, an outstanding pioneer of radiology in France, visited Holzknecht in Vienna to discuss dosimetry issues.
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Franz Urbach directed the Physikalische Laboratorium and worked on radium dosimetry and instrumentation from 1932 to 1934 when Hilda Fonovits-Smereker succeeded him. 74 Through his connections to Tandler and the physicians at the hospital in Lainz, Meyer offered both of them the chance to cross the scientific boundary between physics and medicine, bringing their expertise in instrumentation and experimentation from the Radium Institute to the municipal hospital.
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As the directors of the Vivarium revealed in their plan, the proposed laboratory would function as the regulator for the supplies, the dosimetry, and the handling and shipment of radium in Austrian hospitals. 91 It was one thing for the scientists to require a new research laboratory and it was quite another to envision themselves as the regulators of radium supplies in the hospitals of the entire country.
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He seemed impressed about all the classes in nuclear chemistry, nuclear physics, dosimetry and radiation sciences.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008
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