Exposure - Science and Medicine

Science and Medicine

  • A condition of very poor health or death resulting from lack of protection over prolonged periods under weather, extreme temperatures or dangerous substances. Examples: Hypothermia and sunburn.
  • In the context of epidemiology and risk assessment, exposure is defined as the contact of a human and an agent
  • Mere-exposure effect, a psychological artefact
  • In geology, an occurrence of a rock at the Earth's surface - an outcrop
  • In biology, contact of an organism with a harmful agent (e.g. chemical)
  • Radiation exposure
  • In experimental particle physics (in particular beam experiments or flux measurements), the product of the detector mass times the duration of the experiment, sometimes also multiplied by a measure of the intensity of the incoming flux.

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