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Decontamination

The removal of contaminating material, such as radioactive materials, biological materials, or CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, from a person or object.

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The removal of contaminating material, such as radioactive materials, biological materials, or CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, from a person or object.

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8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data.

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  1. N06.850w.780.325w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Decontamination. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003666. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003666
  2. Decontamination. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decontamination
  3. Decontamination. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17008689