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Parent topics
- Ionizing radiation [r]: Subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that are energetic enough to detach electrons from atoms or molecules, ionizing them. [e]
- Radiology [r]: A physician specialty with a core competence in obtaining and diagnosing by means of instruments that receive energy transmitted through the body; there are a number of subspecialties. [e]
Subtopics
- Instrumentation for radioactivity [r]: Devices that variously detect, measure and characterize radioactivity; they may be intended for field or laboratory use [e]
- Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation [e]
- Fractionated radiotherapy [r]: Medical treatment with ionizing radiation, in which the total dose is spread over multiple treatment sessions, and possibly multiple exposures within the same session [e]
- Allergy and immunology [r]: In medicine medical specialty concerned with the hypersensitivity of the individual to foreign substances and protection from the resultant infection or disorder; may be a subspecialty of internal medicine or pediatrics; also includes the biological scientific study of the immune system and the development of laboratory support for immune phenomena [e]
- Glioblastoma [r]: An aggressively invasive neoplasm of the central nervous system, primarily the brain; not curable but length of survival has improved somewhat in recent years [e]
- Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception [e]
- Perennial allergic rhinitis [r]: Allergic inflammation of the nose and connecting structures, which is established not to be caused by a seasonal allergen [e]