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relative biological effectiveness

noun rel·a·tive biological effectiveness \ˈrel-ət-iv-\

Medical Definition of RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS

:  the relative capacity of a particular ionizing radiation to produce a response in a biological system—abbreviation RBE

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