(n.) The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.
(n.) The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
(2) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(3) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(4) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(5) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
(6) While both inhibitors caused thermosensitization, they did not affect the time scale for the development of thermotolerance at 42 degrees C or after acute heating at 45 degrees C. The inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribosylation) radiosensitizers and thermosensitizers may be of use in the treatment of cancer using a combined modality of radiation and hyperthermia.
(7) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(8) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
(9) Protein kinase C (PKC) is activated rapidly and transiently following ionizing radiation exposure and is postulated to activate downstream nuclear signal transducers.
(10) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
(11) This was treated with local radiation therapy consisting of 2700 rads administered in 15 fractions during a period of 28 days.
(12) This linkage information was used to design complementation tests to determine allelism with previously characterized complementation groups affecting sensitivity to radiation.
(13) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(14) At the completion of radiation therapy, nine patients had negative biopsies.
(15) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(16) Radiation exposure resulted in further significant decrease of T-cell count (but not B cells) in the elderly.
(17) This study reviewed 148 patients who had received radiation for head and neck cancer.
(18) The significantly lower radiation sensitivity of FL-marker than that of infectivity indicates that only part of the genome is responsible for the FL-marker.
(19) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
(20) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
Sunshine
Definition:
(n.) The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
(n.) Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness.
(a.) Sunshiny; bright.
Example Sentences:
(1) For now however, what’s left of their fan base are enjoying a rare burst of sunshine.
(2) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(3) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(4) Sunday sunshine saw dips for films right across the market, including for Oblivion, but the headline number remains robust.
(5) Terrorists will leave the country and go to Holland or somewhere, and there will be more days of sunshine and England will win a football match.
(6) The hypothesis that breastfed infants in Beijing, China, have low vitamin D status and that sunshine exposure increases serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) concentrations was tested in a randomized prospective study involving 42 healthy infants 1-8 months of age.
(7) But last week – last week … Last week there was a sudden burst of sunshine after weeks of sulking sky.
(8) In England and Wales the county boroughs with notably high rates during 1958-67 were mostly textile towns with cotton and wool mills, situated in the area recording the lowest average levels of sunshine.
(9) The grey economic clouds are occasionally pierced by a ray of sunshine.
(10) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
(11) A sunshine exposure score, previously verified, was used to document time and body surface exposed to the sun.
(12) It’s Dougie Donnelly’s introduction (after 1.05) which makes it: ‘Let’s just enjoy it for a moment or two – Sunshine on Leith’.
(13) Roy Elis, Sunshine Hillygus,and Norman Nie calculated that Palin cost McCain four percentage points.
(14) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
(15) The patient had always avoided sunshine because it made her feel uncomfortable.
(16) As wind and sunshine are highly variable, electricity will increasingly flow intermittently.
(17) There were fans too, around 2,000 of them waiting in the sunshine, where a platform had been built on the pitch adorned with the trophies Casillas won during a 17-year career here.
(18) Besides possible ethnic factors, the relative rarity of interictal EEG abnormalities in Africans with grand mal epilepsy may be related to the larger amount of sunshine in the tropics.
(19) Yvonne Robertson, who had travelled from Glasgow with her district lodge, spoke of "an absolutely amazing day" as her red, white and blue glitter headband sparkled in the sunshine.
(20) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.