ICRP Glossary

Absorption Type

Accelerated fractionation

Acceptance test

Access Control

Accountability

Action Level

Active (red) bone marrow

Activity median thermodynamic diameter (AMTD)

Activity, A

Acute Exposure

Adventitious

Adventitious Source

Aerodynamic diameter (dae)

Air sampling

Air-kerma rate constant

Air-kerma rate constant (Γδ)

Air-kerma, entrance surface

Air-kerma, incident (Ki)

Air-kerma, product (PKA)

Alimentary tract

Alimentary tract transfer factor, fA

Alpha decay

Alveolar-interstitial region, AI

Angiogenesis

Annihilation photons

Annual dose

Area monitoring

Auger transition

Authorised Discharge

Authorization

Authorized limit

Autoimmune disease

Autonomy

Avalanche

Averted dose

Background dose (rate)

Backscatter Factor (B)

Basal cell

Beneficence

Benthic

Best Available Techniques (BAT)

Beta-minus decay

Beta-plus decay

Bioassay

Bioassay function

Biokinetic model

Biological dosimetry

Biomedical research volunteer

Bioturbation

Bone marrow

Bradycardia

Branching fraction

Bronchial region

Bystander effect

Calibration

Cardiac arrhythmias

Cardiac valve diseases

Cardiomyopathy

Cardioverter-defibrillator

Categories of exposure

Co-expertise

Contamination

Decontamination

Deontological Ethics

Dignity

Dose constraint

Dose criteria

Dose limit

Emergency exposure situation

Environmental exposure

Equity

Ethics

Existing exposure situation

Exposure Pathway

Exposure situation

Fairness

Graded approach

Health Surveillance

Inclusiveness

Individual dose restriction

Informed Consent

Justice

Non-maleficence

Planned exposure situation

Practical radiological protection culture

Precautionary principle

Principle of application of dose limits

Principle of justification

Principle of optimisation

Procedural values

Projected dose

Protection strategy

Protective action

Prudence

Public exposure

Reasonableness

Recovery

Reference level

Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation of living conditions

Remediation

Representative organism (non-human biota)

Representative person

Residual dose

Right to know

Self-help protection

Radiation Source

Stakeholder

Tolerability

Transparency

Utilitarian ethics

Value judgement

Virtue ethics

Wisdom