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Radiation sickness

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any illness produced by ionizing radiation with symptoms ranging from nausea to death. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours wordnet

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