Definition of "mrem" []

• Millirem (abbreviation)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If a person drank water contaminated to a level of 75,000 picocuries per liter for an entire year, they would receive an internal radiation dose of about 16 mrem, which is far below the natural variations in the average annual dose of 360 mrem in the US."
• " Mora-Corrasco, 1998) After final analysis, it was determined that the maximum dose of radiation received by a research subject was 330 mrem, which is 3 times higher than the recommended dose for background radiation in one year (United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2008)."
• "Exposure Levels Here are typical doses, in millirems, of radiation an average patient would receive in various medical procedures Exam Effective Dose (mrem)"