to irradiate
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- verb
- /ɪˈreɪdiˌeɪt/
- Specialized
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irradiar
- And so you can take budding yeast and you can damage its DNA by irradiating the cells with X-rays.
- irradiated food
- irradiated tissue
- irradiated meat
And the way we do that is we target or irradiate this atom or atoms with a frequency.
- And the way we do that is we target or irradiate this atom or atoms with a frequency.
- And how this causes strand breaks in our DNA not too dissimilar from being irradiated.
- So the idea, the reason I we've got these guys, I'll irradiate the samples in this.
- And they were all like, what the hell, Like he had been irradiated with plutonium.
- That's got, you know, dead animals and humans in it and could be irradiated to from the war before.
- We actually found a recent study that looked at red light therapy and irradiating a mice.
- If you're doing the same thing with protons irradiating from One Direction, then you get much less dose deposition to the rest of the body.
Examples
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Your cells were heavily irradiated.
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And the way we do that is we target or irradiate this atom or atoms with a frequency.
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At this point the director knew he had been irradiated, but not how badly.
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States were permitted to offer school districts irradiated ground beef beginning in January 2004.
Academic text (2005) -
There was a non-significant trend towards fewer distant metastases in the irradiated group.
Academic text (2000) -
A fluorometer is a device that detects fluorescence after irradiating a surface with ultraviolet light.
Academic text (2010) -
In current studies of radiotherapy, only the posterior half of the pelvis is irradiated because most recurrences occur there.
Academic text (1996) -
Omaha Steaks, for example, began offering irradiated hamburger patties and ground beef in November 2000.
Academic text (2002) -
Doctors often use radiation to irradiate tumors during cancer treatment.
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The scientists decided to irradiate the samples to test for radiation resistance.
Antonyms
How Much Radiation
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Irradiate comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and radiare 'to shine', the same root as radiant and radiation and the everyday word 'ray'. So to irradiate something is to 'send rays into' it, which is why the word is used for exposing food or body tissue to radiation.