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committed dose
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Noun
committed dose (plural committed doses)
- (biology, medicine) The radiation dose as defined by the stochastic health risk that it poses. Like several other dose types, expressed by SI in sieverts (non-SI, in rems).
- Hypernyms: radiation dose < dose
- Coordinate terms: equivalent dose, effective dose; absorbed dose
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