Qualifier in English: | radiation effects |
Qualifier in Spanish: | efectos de la radiación |
Qualifier in Portuguese: | efeitos da radiação |
Qualifier in French: | effets des radiations |
Scope note: | Used for effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation upon living organisms, organs and tissues, and their constituents, and upon physiologic processes. It includes the effect of irradiation on drugs and chemicals. |
Annotation: | subhead only; includes ionizing & non-ionizing radiation; not for therapeutic effect of radiations ( = /radiotherapy); see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.60; DF: /rad eff or /RE |
Online Note: | search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/RE or RE (SH) or SUBS APPLY RE |
History Note: | 66; used with Category A, B & G 1966-67; A, B, D & G 1968-74; A, B, D, F1-2, G4-12 & J 1975-84; A, B1, B3-6, D, F1-2, G4-12 & J 1985 forward |
Entry Version: |
RAD EFF |
Abbreviation: | RE |
DeCS UI: | 22022 |
Descriptor UI: | Q000528 |
Date Established: | 1966/01/01 |
Date of Entry: | 1973/12/27 |
Revision Date: | 2003/07/22 |
radiation effects
- Preferred
Concept UI |
M0030732 |
Scope note | Used for effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation upon living organisms, organs and tissues, and their constituents, and upon physiologic processes. It includes the effect of irradiation on drugs and chemicals. |
Preferred term | radiation effects |
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