| RAIU | radioactive iodine uptake |
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| RAMP | radioactive antigen microprecipitin; right atrial mean pressure |
| RAU | radioactive uptake |
| RI | radiation intensity; radioactive isotope; radioimmunology; recession index; recombinant inbred [stra... |
| RIHSA | radioactive iodinated human serum albumin |
| colloidal radioactive gold | A radioactive isotope of gold emitting negative beta particles and gamma radiation, with a half-life of 2.7 days; formerly used for irradiation of closed serous cavities in the palliative treatment of ascites and pleural effusion due to metastatic malignancies, and for liver scans. Synonym: 198Au colloid, colloidal radioactive gold. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| soil pollutants, radioactive | Pollutants, present in soil, which exhibit radioactivity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| elements, radioactive | Chemical elements which spontaneously transmute into another element with corpuscular or electromagnetic radiation. The natural radioactive elements are all those with an atomic number above 83, and some other elements, such as potassium (atomic number 19) and rubidium (atomic number 7), which are very weakly radioactive. (12 Dec 1998) |