If a Threshold relationship exists between a radiation dose and a biologic response, even the smallest dose of ionizing radiation will have some biologic effect on a living organism.

The ____ is the overall time during which there is a decline in female reproductive function.

In humans radiation induced________ may take 5 or more years to develop.

The embryo-fetus is particularly insensitive to radiation exposure.

Information obtained from a radiation dose response curve can be used to predict the risk of malignancy in human populations exposed to low levels of ionizing radiation.

Cataracts, leukemia and genetic mutations are examples of measurable radiation induced biologic damage.

What is the maximum radiation dose  that the fetus of a pregnant radiographer is allowed to receive for the entire pregnacy ?

For individual members of the general public not occupationally exposed, the NCRP recommends an annual effective dose limit of ______for continous (or frequent) exposures from artifical sources of ionizing radiation other than medical irradiation and natural background and a limit of ______annually for infreqent exposures.

Which of the following is a stochastic effect? 1. Heredity Effects 2. Carcinogenesis 3. Reduce fertility

Young women who painted watch dial with radium in some factories in New Jersey  in the 1920s and 1930s eventually developed which of the following conditions as a consequence of their exposure to radiation? 1. Osteoporosis 2. Osteogenic sarcoma 3. Carcinomas of the epithelial lining of the nasopharynx and paranasal sinus ..