Speakur

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radiation sickness

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables
ra-di-a-tion sick-ness
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any illness produced by ionizing radiation with symptoms ranging from nausea to death.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

radiation sicknesses (plural)

Synonyms

irradiation sickness radiation poisoning radiation syndrome radiation

Questions

What does radiation sickness mean?
Any illness produced by ionizing radiation with symptoms ranging from nausea to death.

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