Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the effects of radiation on living organisms.
- noun The use of radioactive tracers to study biological processes.
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- noun biology The study of the effects of
ionizing radiation onliving organisms - noun biochemistry The use of
radioactive labels to study biological processes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of biology that studies the effects of radiation on living organisms
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Examples
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Professor McKenna's track record in research on 'radiobiology' - the study of how radiation affects cells - is second to none.
Analysis 2010
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Professor McKenna's track record in research on 'radiobiology' - the study of how radiation affects cells - is second to none.
Analysis 2010
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Core knowledge of the radiologist includes radiobiology, which is the study of the effects of ionizing radiation on living tissue.
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily siraj mohammed 2010
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A year later, she moved to the Institute of Medical Physics in Frankfurt am Main where she worked as a research assistant. 98 For more than a year, she instructed doctors in radiobiology while she conceived and elaborated a theory on the effect of x-rays on biological objects.
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A research proposal on the effects of radiation in primates is just one of twelve studies that NASA has chosen to fund through its Human Research Program grants for space radiobiology research.
NASA to Fund Primate Radiation Research | Universe Today 2009
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Then Boris S. Berlin, a cheerful, optimistic guy, our expert in radiobiology, took a walk in a wooded area near his apartment, and somehow decided to take his own life, or so the police said.
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Then Boris S. Berlin, a cheerful, optimistic guy, our expert in radiobiology, took a walk in a wooded area near his apartment, and somehow decided to take his own life, or so the police said.
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But due to the restriction in physics research imposed by the military government I turned for a few years my interest to radiobiology and cancer therapy by electrons in collaboration with my colleague G. Schubert from the medical faculty.
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Captain Virgil Aspaugh has a doctorate in radiobiology from MIT and is in charge of our nuclear-weapons safety program.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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Captain Virgil Aspaugh has a doctorate in radiobiology from MIT and is in charge of our nuclear-weapons safety program.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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