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Noun Concept
Categories: Units of radiation dose, Wilhelm Röntgen, Non-SI metric units, Radiobiology, Radiation health effects
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REM  roentgen equivalent man  millirem  mrem  Roentgen-equivalent man
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(Roentgen Equivalent Man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays WordNet 3.0
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(Roentgen Equivalent Man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays WordNet 3.0
(roentgen equivalent man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays Open English WordNet
The roentgen equivalent man is a CGS unit of equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose, which are dose measures used to estimate potential health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body. Wikipedia
A unit of radiation dose equivalent Wikipedia Disambiguation
Unit of measurement Wikidata
IS A
radioactivity unit
unit of measurement
MEASURED PHYSICAL QUANTITY
equivalent dose
NAMED AFTER
Roentgen
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roentgen equivalent man
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Roentgen equivalent man
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millirem, mrem, Roentgen-equivalent man, Roentgen Equivalent in Man, Roentgen Equivalent Man, Roentgen equivalent person, Roetgen Equivalent Man, Rontgen equivalent man, Röentgen equivalent man, Röntgen equivalent man
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