Radiation Protection
Across
- 2. controls the whole cell and its function
- 4. ______ bonds attach the DNA bases to each other hydrogen
- 9. weighting factors are used to calculate
- 12. adenine binds with
- 14. powerhouse of cell
- 17. also known as fats
- 18. value of specific cancer occurrences post exposure
- 20. evaluation of chromosome damage can be seen during _____ phase of cell division
- 21. effects biologic damage from exposure to radiation
- 23. blood cells are manufactured in
- 25. 1 of the many symptoms of manifest illness
- 27. 1 parent; 2 daughter cells
- 28. the building blocks of a cell
- 31. what kind of procedure has significant skin effects caused by ionizing radiation
- 35. rays, form of low LET
- 36. most common radiation related cancer after Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing
- 38. radiation exposure to these WBC’s increases a person chance of infection
- 39. a dose of 2.5 Gy to the gonads will cause temporary ______
- 40. mutation dominant or recessive mutations of molecules
Down
- 1. medical term that defines a collection of symptoms
- 3. _________ tissue is more radiosensitive than when it is not
- 5. when blood vessels and permeable capillaries allow fluid to leak into the _______ it causes an increase in fluid content
- 6. platelets
- 7. stochastic arbitrary late effects such as cancer
- 8. all blood cells develop from a single ____ cell
- 10. dose needed to duplicate spontaneous mutations in populations
- 11. can form in mice with doses as low as 0.1Gy
- 13. "suicide bags"
- 15. purines combine with pyrimidines to form ______
- 16. once known as interphase death
- 19. French scientist who observed effects of ionizing rad on male germ cells
- 22. female germ cell
- 24. gestational phase 10 days- 12 weeks post conception
- 26. hair loss
- 29. 1 parent; 2 daughter cells; half chromosomes
- 30. most radiosensitive white blood cell
- 32. study of diseases in a population
- 33. prediction of increase in radiation related cancer in proportion to natural cases of cancer
- 34. granulocytes are a ___________ type of white blood cell that fights bacteria
- 37. shrinkage of organs