Dosimetry

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dosimetry \do*sim"e*try\, n. [NL. dosis dose + -metry.] (Med.)
     Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which
     uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in
     doses fixed by certain rules. -- {Do`si*met"ric}, a. --
     {Do*sim"e*trist}, n.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dosimetry
       n : measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive
           source