the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries | the act of spreading outward from a central source |
punishment for one's actions | (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance |
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain |
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats |
| energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles |
| the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay |
| 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 |