Rad Bio Acute Radiation Syndrome questions with correct answers

weekly blood work - Answer the only way to monitor x-ray workers for radiation exposure in the 20's and 30's deterministic - Answer radiation responses that exhibit increasing severity with increasing radiation dose; once a dose threshold is exceeded, severity of response increases with increasing dose death - Answer most devastating human response to radiation exposure; diagnostic radiation exposure not intense or large enough Chernobyl - Answer April 1986, thirty people died from acute radiation syndrome acute radiation syndrome - Answer sequence of events that follow high-level radiation exposure leading to death within days or weeks; three dose related with distinct clinical responses prodromal period - Answer acute clinical symptoms that occur within hours of exposure of 100 rad (1 Gy) delivered to the total body; nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, leukopenia (low WBCs in peripheral blood); lasts a few hours to a couple days; severity is dose related, severe when dose > 1000 rad (10 Gy)