radiation damage
Rays causing injury
Radiation damage is harm caused to materials or living tissue by exposure to ionizing radiation.
In biology, radiation damage affects cells and DNA, potentially causing cancer or radiation sickness: The survivors showed signs of radiation damage years later.
In materials science, it refers to structural degradation in metals, semiconductors, or other substances exposed to radiation, a concern in nuclear reactors and spacecraft.
- radiolysisMolecular breakdown from ionizing rays
- embrittlementMaterial losing flexibility, gaining fragility
- burnDamage by heat
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
- apoptosisProgrammed cell death
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- DNA damagelesion, mutation, nick, mismatch, adduct
- Genome IntegrityDNA repair, mutations, double-strand break, proofreading, error correction
- Devastationrubble, debris, destruction, devastation, collapsed structures
- disfigurementsscars, scar, scarring, deformities, deformity
- tissue damagenecrosis, laceration, lesion, wound, bruising
- crystallographycrystal structure, crystal systems, crystal growth, dislocations, crystallization
radiation damagechemical burn
Damage from corrosive substances
thermal burn · crush injury · laceration · puncture wound · frostbite
radiation damageDNA repair
Restoring damaged genetic code
tissue repair · healing · regeneration · tissue regeneration · recovery
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