Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. Any illness produced by ionizing radiation with symptoms ranging from nausea through to death.
WordNet
n. 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; "he was suffering from radiation" [syn: radiation syndrome, radiation]
Wikipedia
Radiation Sickness is a VHS by the thrash metal band Nuclear Assault. The video is a recording of a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, London in 1988. It was released in 1991. Re-released on DVD in 2007.
Radiation sickness may refer to:
- Radiation Sickness (video), a video by the thrash metal band Nuclear Assault
- Radiation poisoning, a sickness caused by exposure to radiation
- Radiation Sickness (band), a U.S. crossover band founded in 1987
Usage examples of "radiation sickness".
I didn't even think of it until Bell said the filly could have had radiation sickness, and then I really knew what George was probably doing, in all those places and lying about it.
I didn't even think of it until Bell said the filly could have had radiation sickness, and then I really knew what George was probably doing in all those places and lying about it.
The enthusiasm was peeling a little wide of my known persona among my former comrades-in-arms, but not so wide that it couldn't be put down to tetrameth, radiation sickness and exposure to alien strangeness.
Most of that was taken up trying to locate the limpet cherries and illuminum arrows of our original mapping, but the radiation sickness took its toll along the way.
Yes, now it was very apparent that the men of this city had died of plague, or gas, or even of the radiation sickness.
Women don't have babies any more, now that radiation sickness is so fashionable.
For a scary moment he thought it was one of the woozy symptoms of radiation sickness again.
But she wondered how it might be for the crew members, wakened to go through radiation sickness with no gravs!
The dampness made him ache deep in his bones, an arthritic-like reminder of his age and the dose of radiation sickness he'd contracted years earlier.