Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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irradiation | Yes | No | No | No |
illusion | Yes | No | No | No |
irradiation (noun) | illusion (noun) |
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(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance | the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas |
the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background | an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers |
(Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus | something many people believe that is false |
(physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex | an erroneous mental representation |
a column of light (as from a beacon) | |
the condition of being exposed to radiation |