2015 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 457 - Cancer
NRS 457.182 - Definitions.
As used in NRS 457.182 to 457.187, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Mammography” means radiography of the breast to enable a physician to determine the presence, size, location and extent of cancerous or potentially cancerous tissue in the breast.
2. “Radiation” means radiant energy which exceeds normal background levels and which is used in radiography.
3. “Radiography” means the making of a film or other record of an internal structure of the body by passing X rays or gamma rays through the body to act on film or other receptor of images.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 902; A 1997, 2058; 2013, 2052, 2732)
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