committed dose

English

Noun

committed dose (plural committed doses)

  2. (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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