Radiation (disambiguation)
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Radiation may have one of the following meanings:
- Radiation (in physics), an emission of energy or particles
- Radiation in evolutionary biology:
- Evolutionary radiation, a diversification into several lineages from a common ancestor
- Adaptive radiation, an evolutionary radiation to fill many ecological niches.
- Radiation (medicine), characteristics of e.g. pain to spread to other parts of the body than the origin
- Radiation therapy, a medical treatment that involves radiating part or all of the body
- Radiation poisoning, a form of damage to organ tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation