title: Decorporation: officially a word.
abstract: This note is the brief history of a word. Decorporation is a scientific term known to health physicists who have an interest in the removal of internally deposited radionuclides from the body after an accidental or inadvertent intake. Although the word decorporation appears many times in the radiation protection literature, it was only recently accepted by the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary as an entry for their latest edition.
authors.affiliation: Hanford Radioisotopes and Medical Sciences Program, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA. dr.fisher@pnl.gov
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D006283:Health Physics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000266:history; D011853:Radiobiology / Q000266:history; D009626:Terminology as Topic