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11 June 2019
ICRP Glossary
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Class SR-2 gases
Created page with "Highly soluble and reactive gases and vapours. (ICRP Publication 119, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
Class SR-1 gases
Created page with "Soluble and reactive gases and vapours. (ICRP Publication 119, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
Class SR-0 gases
Created page with "Insoluble and non-reactive gases and vapours. (ICRP Publication 119, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
Xerostomia
Created page with "Dryness of the mouth caused by malfunctioning salivary glands or composition of saliva. Xerostomia is also known to be caused by radiotherapy of the head and neck region. (I..."
Valvular heart disease
Created page with "Heart disease due to one or more abnormal heart valves. Abnormally narrowed or leaky heart valves can interfere with the heart’s ability to push blood forward from chamber t..."
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Transforming growth factor
Created page with "A cytokine that regulates many of the biological processes essential for embryo development and tissue homeostasis, and which therefore plays a role in tissue healing. The eff..."
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Time factor
Created page with "Describes the change in iso-effective total dose for local tumour control or normal tissue complications that follows a change in the overall treatment duration. (ICRP Publi..."
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Subcutaneous tissue
Created page with "Loose fibrous tissue situated directly below the skin. It includes blood vessels, connective tissue, muscle, fat and glands. In the context of intake through wounds, it repres..."
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Slow repair
Created page with "Long-term recovery that takes place on a time scale of weeks to months, often associated with long-term intracellular repair of DNA double strand breaks. (Adapted from ICRP..."
Reproductive integrity
Created page with "Ability of cells to divide many times and thus be ‘clonogenic’. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
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Radiosensitivity, cellular
Created page with "The sensitivity of cells to ionising radiation in vitro. Usually indicated by the surviving fraction at 2 Gy (i.e. SF<sub>2</sub> or by the parameters of the linear-quadratic..."
Radiosensitiser
Created page with "In general, any agent that increases the sensitivity of cells to radiation. Commonly applied to electron-affinic chemicals that mimics oxygen in fixing free radical damage, al..."
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Radiographer
Created page with "Radiographers use medical x-ray equipment to produce images of the tissues, organs, bones, and vessels of the body, as prescribed by physicians, to assist in the diagnosis of..."
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Progenitor cell
Created page with "Undifferentiated cell capable of limited proliferation. (ICRP Publication 103, 2007) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
Platelet-derived growth factor
Created page with "A protein that induces growth and division of fibroblasts and is involved inblood vessel formation and wound healing. It also acts on some epithelial and endothelial cells and..."
Pharynx
Created page with "Medical term for the throat from the nasal and oral cavities above to the larynx and oesophagus below. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
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Pericarditis
Created page with "Inflammation of the pericardium, the membrane that surrounds the heart, frequently attributable to viral infections but in most cases, the cause of pericarditis is unknown. Pe..."
Percutaneous coronary intervention
Created page with "Percutaneous coronary intervention encompasses a variety of procedures used to treat patients with diseased coronary arteries. A catheter is advanced into the diseased artery,..."
Nuclear track detectors
Created page with "Detectors where the tracks of passing charged particles can subsequently be made visible by suitable chemical treatment and viewed microscopically. These passive detectors are..."
Neurovascular syndrome
Created page with "Total-body exposures in the range of 50 Gy and more induce this syndrome within 1–72 h, leading to death within a few days. Some symptoms may occur as low as 20 Gy. Early sy..."
Neurological syndrome
Created page with "The signs and symptoms of damage to the central nervous system within 48 hours related to an acute exposure to ionising radiation with a threshold of about > 50 Gy noting that..."
Necrosis
Created page with "Cell death associated with loss of cellular membrane integrity. Occurs in anoxic areas of tumours and is also a cause of cell death after irradiation. ([[ICRP Publication 118]..."
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Myocardial perfusion
Created page with "Blood flow to the heart muscle. Perfusion malfunctions may arisefrom coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, hypertrophiccardiomyopathy and wall motion abnormalities...."
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Macrophage colony stimulating factor
Created page with "Cytokine that stimulates formation of macrophages from pluripotent haematopoietic cells. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
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Individual decontamination
Created page with "The complete or partial removal of contamination, either internal or external, from a person by a deliberate physical, chemical, or biological process. ''ICRP Glossary..."
Direct bioassay
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In vivo radiobioassay
Created page with "Also called “direct bioassay” or “in vivo measurement”. Measurements of radioactive material in the human body utilizing instrumentation that detects radiation emitted..."
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Hormones
Created page with "A class of signaling molecules produced by glands in multicellular organisms that are transported by the circulatory system to target distant organs to regulate physiology and..."
Habitual nose breather
Created page with "A person who breathes entirely through the nose regardless of the exercise level. Such a person may switch to breathing oro-nasally (partly through the nose and partly through..."
Habitual mouth breather
Created page with "A person who breathes oro-nasally (partly through the nose and partly through the mouth) at all levels of exercise: sleep, sitting light exercise and heavy exercise. At 'heavy..."
Growth hormone (somatotropin)
Created page with "A peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration. Growth hormone is synthesized, stored and secreted by somatotropic cells within the anterio..."
Growth fraction
Created page with "Proportion of viable cells in active cell division. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
Created page with "Cytokine that stimulates differentiation of progenitors into granulocytes, macrophages, and eosinophils. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2..."
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
Created page with "Cytokine that stimulates differentiation of progenitor cells into granulocytes. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''"
Gastrointestinal syndrome
Created page with "The signs and symptoms of intestinal failure; e.g. intestinal damage related to an acute exposure to ionising radiation with a threshold of about 10 Gy. Acute radiation syndro..."