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Meaning: (idiomatic,medicine)Adrinkableliquidcontaining aradioactivesubstance, used in health care either as adiagnosticaid or as atreatment, especially forcancerof thethyroid.1954March 22, “Medicine: Atomic Diagnosis”, inTime, retrieved19 March 2014:For most patients, the old-fashioned basal metabolism test is a mild form of torture . . . and four Navy researchers have come to the conclusion that in big medical centers with facilities for handling radioisotopes it should be replaced by the "atomic cocktail."1998, Jerome Klinkowitz,Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction,→ISBN,page73:Lilienthal's speech to the scientists at G.E. revelled in possibilities for atomic measurement and medicine, especially how a man dying of a huge throat tumor was treated with anatomic cocktail, causing the tumor to disappear completely in a matter of days.2007, Ira Edwards,Honest Nutrition,→ISBN,page130:The test showed excessive hormone, so the doctor prescribed an “atomic cocktail,” a radioactive iodine mixture designed to partially kill the thyroid gland.2010, R Alan Smith,Our Eyes Are on You,→ISBN,page148:I was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles for a radioactive iodine scan, this one at diagnostic levels—less radiation than the therapeutic levels I would eventually endure. I drank my firstatomic cocktail: a vial of liquid radioactive iodine diluted in what seemed like gallons of water.; A mixedalcoholicbeverage, created inLas Vegas,United States, in the mid-20th century.2001April 15,James McManus, "Profiles in Corruption" (book review ofThe Money and the Powerby Sally Denton andRoger Morris),New York Times(retrieved 19 March 2014):Its most famous drink is theatomic cocktail—vodka, brandy, Champagne, splash of sherry.
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