absorbed dose

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the amount of energy transferred by nuclear or ionizing radiation to a unit mass of absorbing material

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Words nearby absorbed dose

absorb, absorbable gelatin film, absorbable suture, absorbance, absorbed, absorbed dose, absorbefacient, absorbent, absorbent cotton, absorbent vessel, absorber

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How to use absorbed dose in a sentence

If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.
‘The Comeback’ Finale: Give Lisa Kudrow All of the Awards|Kevin Fallon|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As digesting food passes through the small intestine, it mixes with chemicals from the liver, and nutrients are absorbed.
‘Rectal Feeding’ Has Nothing to Do with Nutrition, Everything to Do with Torture|Russell Saunders|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy, the self-induced, self-absorbed Greek tragedy of Andrew Lohse.
An Ivy League Frat Boy’s Shallow Repentance|Stefan Beck|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Stop Making Sense is the only current movie that's a dose of happiness from beginning to end.
The Stacks: Pauline Kael's Talking Heads Obsession|Pauline Kael|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In the book, you say “Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth.”
George Clinton on Industry ‘Mobsters’ and How Nobody Wants to Listen to a Crackhead|Curtis Stephen|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
The occupants of the room had been too absorbed with their own affairs to notice the gradual dimming of the illumination.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
Indol is absorbed and oxidized into indoxyl, which combines with potassium and sulphuric acid and is thus excreted.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
But I couldn't get rid of the notion that he would hand me out the same dose he had given MacRae if only he had the power.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
But her attention was all absorbed by the swiftly executed act by which Garnache had gained at least a temporary advantage.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini

Medical definitions for absorbed dose

absorbed dose

[ əb-zôrbd′ ]

The quantity of radiation energy, expressed in rads, that is administered or absorbed per unit mass of target.