radiationist
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radiationist (plural radiationists)
- (nonstandard, rare) One whose (medical or scientific) profession is to apply radiation or radioactive material (to someone or something).
- 1957, The Control of Radiation Hazards in Industry:
- More than 100 fatalities were recorded among these pioneer radiationists. One of the earliest and now best known incidents of Industrial radiation injury is that of the radium dial painters. During and immediately after World War I, a number of women worked in a war plant painting luminous watch and instrument dials. The luminous material was a mixture of a paint containing zinc sulfide, which phosphoresces on exposure to alpha rays, and a radium salt.
- 2009, N Blake, “Changes to 457 Visas - Implications for Nursing”, in Australian Nursing Journal:
- Soon after the new scheme begins, another four professions will be added including; Aboriginal health workers, Chinese Medicine practitioners, medical radiationists and occupational therapists.
- 2014, William Winston, Marketing the Group Practice: Practical Methods for the Health Care Practitioner, Routledge, →ISBN:
- The expertise of qualified oncologists, radiation therapists, and diagnostic radiationists are within close proximity of the clinic and will be used as determined by individual patient needs.
- (rare) One who believes in or claims to practice extrasensory perception by sensing radiation.
- 1955, Eileen Jeanette Lyttle Garrett, Tomorrow:
- I am not subscribing here to the theory of Richet or to that of the radiationists who believe that the perception is due to radiations given off from an object or a drawing. My emphasis is rather upon the percipient. The human being is dynamic, not the target. If there are any radiations, they must stem from him. It is my firm conviction that in the personality of the percipient we shall find what will prove most valuable for the understanding of paranormal manifestations.
- 1996, Mary Elsnau, Occult Phenomena, Mysteries & Philosophy, Health Research Books, →ISBN, page 62:
- Discover these radiations for yourself. Start slowly, say for not more than a 15 minute period. Experienced radiationists work for hours on certain studies but they all started gradually. First make this test for sensitivity. Stand upright, relax and face due West. Place your left hand flat over your solar plexus — the place where the ribs join — the fingers touching each other. Now suspend the pendulum from the right hand about nine inches from the left hand and opposite the center ...