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- 19:11, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-29) ICRP Glossary (→T)
- 19:10, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+399) N Systemic model (Created page with "Model describing the behaviour of radionuclides absorbed into blood, the distribution and retention in various organs and tissues, and the subsequent excretion from the body b...")
- 19:10, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-40) ICRP Glossary (→S)
- 19:09, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+285) N Myocardial stress test (Created page with "A standardised procedure for assessing the effect of stress on cardiac haemodynamics, electrical activity, perfusion, and/or function. Stress may be induced by exercise or sim...")
- 19:09, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+29) ICRP Glossary (→M)
- 19:08, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-18) ICRP Glossary (→S)
- 19:05, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+482) N Routine monitoring (Created page with "Measurement of dose or contamination for the purpose of the assessment or control of exposure to radiation or radioactive material, and the interpretation of the results. It i...")
- 19:01, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+143) N Respiratory protection (Created page with "The use of a device worn on the face or head to prevent or minimise the inhalation of radionuclides. ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 19:00, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-20) ICRP Glossary (→R)
- 19:00, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-26) ICRP Glossary (→R)
- 18:58, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+331) N Radiation safety officer (Created page with "A person responsible for the safe use of radiation and radioactive materials as well as regulatory compliance who is designated by the registrant or licensee to oversee the ap...")
- 18:56, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-10) ICRP Glossary (→R)
- 18:56, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-26) ICRP Glossary (→P)
- 18:55, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+263) N Protective action guide (Created page with "A preset value of radiological quantity (e.g. radionuclide concentration in air, ambient dose rate) which would warrant initiation of protective actions to reduce exposure of...")
- 18:50, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-60) ICRP Glossary (→P)
- 18:46, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-37) ICRP Glossary (→O)
- 18:45, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-26) ICRP Glossary (→N)
- 18:44, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+166) N Limitation of dose (Created page with "The use of controls (in terms of doses) over the exposure of an individual to ensure that the radiation risk is acceptable. ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 18:42, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+275) N Investigation level (Created page with "A value of a quantity above which the cause or the implications of the result should be examined. Note that investigation levels are often set in terms of readily measurable q...")
- 18:41, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+195) N Inhalability (Created page with "Fraction of particles that enters the nose and mouth, of those present in the volume of ambient air before inspiration. (ICRP Publication 130, 2015) ''ICRP Glossary...")
- 18:41, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-39) ICRP Glossary (→I)
- 18:40, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+379) N Individual-related (Created page with "Of, or relating to, the radiation exposure of a specific individual. It is contrasted with another term, “source-related”. Note that this term is used when the assessment...")
- 18:40, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+25) ICRP Glossary (→I)
- 18:37, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+345) N Individual monitoring (Created page with "Monitoring using measurements taken from devices worn by individuals, or measurements of quantities of radioactive substances in or on individuals, or measurements of quantiti...")
- 18:35, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+36) ICRP Glossary (→H)
- 18:20, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+264) N Dose-threshold (Created page with "A dose level above which a given health effect is expected to result. For a tissue reaction (or deterministic effect), ICRP takes the dose threshold at a dose level where 1% o...")
- 18:18, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-26) ICRP Glossary (→D)
- 18:16, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-23) ICRP Glossary (→D)
- 18:11, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+122) N Class SR-2 gases (Created page with "Highly soluble and reactive gases and vapours. (ICRP Publication 119, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 18:10, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+115) N Class SR-1 gases (Created page with "Soluble and reactive gases and vapours. (ICRP Publication 119, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 18:09, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+121) N Class SR-0 gases (Created page with "Insoluble and non-reactive gases and vapours. (ICRP Publication 119, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 18:03, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+246) N 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...")
- 18:02, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+330) N 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...")
- 18:01, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-20) ICRP Glossary (→T)
- 18:01, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+429) N 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...")
- 17:59, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-31) ICRP Glossary (→T)
- 17:59, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+237) N 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...")
- 17:57, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-18) ICRP Glossary (→T)
- 17:57, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-15) ICRP Glossary (→S)
- 17:56, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+392) N 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...")
- 17:55, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-13) ICRP Glossary (→S)
- 17:54, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-18) ICRP Glossary (→S)
- 17:53, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+242) N 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...")
- 17:52, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+143) N 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''")
- 17:52, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-24) ICRP Glossary (→R)
- 17:51, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+279) N 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...")
- 17:50, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+335) N 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...")
- 17:50, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-40) ICRP Glossary (→R)
- 17:49, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+553) N 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...")
- 17:48, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-18) ICRP Glossary (→P)
- 17:48, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+131) N Progenitor cell (Created page with "Undifferentiated cell capable of limited proliferation. (ICRP Publication 103, 2007) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 17:48, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+286) N 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...")
- 17:47, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+178) N 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''")
- 17:47, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-37) ICRP Glossary (→P)
- 17:46, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+329) N 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...")
- 17:46, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+476) N 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,...")
- 17:45, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+495) N 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...")
- 17:44, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+504) N 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...")
- 17:43, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+305) N 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...")
- 17:42, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+226) N 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]...")
- 17:41, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-23) ICRP Glossary (→N)
- 17:41, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+296) N 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....")
- 17:40, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-28) ICRP Glossary (→M)
- 17:39, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+164) N 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''")
- 17:39, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-27) ICRP Glossary (→L)
- 17:38, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+195) N 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...")
- 17:37, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-145) Direct bioassay (Redirected page to In vivo radiobioassay) (current) (Tag: New redirect)
- 17:35, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+323) N 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...")
- 17:35, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+2) ICRP Glossary (→I)
- 17:33, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+228) N 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...")
- 17:32, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+346) N 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...")
- 17:31, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+318) N 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...")
- 17:30, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+236) N 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...")
- 17:30, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+127) N Growth fraction (Created page with "Proportion of viable cells in active cell division. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 17:30, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+180) N 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...")
- 17:29, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+155) N 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''")
- 17:29, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+311) N 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...")
- 17:28, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-23) ICRP Glossary (→G)
- 17:28, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+123) Complex tissues
- 17:27, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+263) N Hierarchical tissues (Created page with "In hierarchical (Type H) tissues cells are arranged in a lineage ranging from stem cells to mature cells, and their dose-latency relationship is defined by the radiosensitivit...")
- 17:27, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+464) N Flexible tissues (Created page with "In flexible (Type F) tissues all cells are assumed to have the potential for proliferation and are also engaged in tissue-specific functions. The pronounced dose-latency relat...")
- 17:25, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+323) N Extrathoracic airways (Created page with "Part of the respiratory tract, consisting of the anterior nose (the ET1 region) and the posterior nasal passages, pharynx and larynx (the ET2 region). The oral part of the pha...")
- 17:25, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+165) N Excretion rate (instantaneous) (Created page with "The instantaneous rate at which a radionuclide is removed in excreta (Bq s<sup>-1</sup>). (ICRP Publication 130, 2015) ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 17:24, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+1) ICRP Glossary (→E)
- 17:23, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+15) ICRP Glossary (→E)
- 17:19, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+381) N Epithelium (Created page with "Epithelium is one of the four basic types of tissues, along with connective tissue, muscle tissue and nervous tissue. Epithelial tissues line the outer surfaces of organs and...")
- 17:18, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-37) ICRP Glossary (→D)
- 17:17, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-209) Direct bioassay
- 17:16, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+1) Direct bioassay
- 17:16, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+429) N Direct bioassay (Created page with "Measurements of radioactive material in the human body utilizing instrumentation that detects radiation emitted from the radioactive material in the body. ([https://www.iso.or...")
- 17:14, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+197) N Differentiation (Created page with "The process whereby stem cells enter a pathway of proliferation in which they acquire specialised functions. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 103, 2007) ''[[ICRP Glossary]...")
- 17:13, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+264) N Diastasis (Created page with "The midportion of diastole, when the blood enters the ventricle slowly or ceases to enter. Diastasis duration is in inverse proportion to heart rate and is absent at very high...")
- 17:11, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+209) N Cytokines (Created page with "Cytokines are a broad category of small proteins (~5–20 kDa) that are important in cell signaling. Their release has an effect on the behavior of cells around them. ''IC...")
- 15:57, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+238) N Complex tissues (Created page with "Cell populations in which function and proliferation take place in the same cells (otherwise called ‘flexible tissues’ or ‘conditional renewing tissues’). (ICRP Publ...")
- 15:57, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+304) N Clonogenic survival (Created page with "Defined as the fraction of cells that survive following exposure to, or treatment with, an agent that causes cell death. Only cells that are able to form colonies (clonogenic...")
- 15:56, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+233) N Clonogenic cells (Created page with "Cells that have the capacity to produce an expanding family of descendants (usually at least 50). Also called ‘colony-forming cells’ or ‘clonogens’. (ICRP Publicatio...")
- 15:55, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-18) ICRP Glossary (→C)
- 15:54, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+159) N Bronchial region (Created page with "Part of the respiratory tract, consisting of the trachea (generation 0) and bronchi, airway generations 1 through 8. ''ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019''")
- 15:54, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+561) N Bone marrow (Created page with "Bone marrow, a semi-solid tissue located within the spongious portions of bones, is the primary site of new blood cell production or hematopoiesis. It is composed of hematopoi...")
- 15:53, 11 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+1) Biomedical research volunteer
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