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Encyclopedia > Walking ghost phase

The walking ghost, or latent, phase of radiation poisoning is a period of apparent health, lasting for hours or days, following a dose of 10-50 sieverts of radiation. As its name would suggest, the walking ghost phase is followed by certain death. Radiation Hazard symbol. ... The sievert (symbol: Sv) is the SI derived unit of dose equivalent. ... Radiation in physics is the process of emitting energy in the form of waves or particles. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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Treatment

All current medical treatments are palliative, largely pain management. Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ...


Post-latent symptoms

Prostration can mean either: the placement of the body in a reverentially or submissively prone position (for instance, as part of religious or spiritual observance); or, physical or mental exhaustion (for instance, as part of a medical condition). ... Types 5-7 on the Bristol Stool Chart are often associated with diarrhea Diarrhea (in American English) or diarrhoea (in British English) is a generally unpleasant condition in which the sufferer has frequent watery, loose bowel movements (from the ancient Greek word διαρροή = leakage; literally meaning to run through). Acute infectious... Malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition caused by an improper or insufficient diet. ... An analogue medical thermometer showing the temperature of 38. ...

Cause of death

A painful death, marked by delirium and coma, inevitably awaits any recipient of such a dose of radiation, between 2-10 days after the completion of the walking ghost phase of radiation poisoning. Delirium is a medical term used to describe an acute decline in attention and cognition. ... Comatose redirects here. ...


Sources

  • http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmoilane/nuclear/Fallout.html


 

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