Definition of millirem
:one thousandth of a rem
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Nine workers were tested and found to have inhaled doses of less than 100 millirem of americium-241, according to a DOE enforcement letter of August 2016.
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The scanner peers inside the human body by sweeping a person with a .3 millirem X-ray.
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First Known Use of millirem
1947
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