This Letter deals with the so-called nuclear polarization correction to the 1S levels in light to intermediate muonic atoms. An easy to use recipe to compute it is given. The calculation includes the effect of the nucleon polarization, i.e. the contribution from inelastic states in the hadronic range, and Coulomb corrections beyond the leading-logarithm approximation to both nuclear and nucleon polarization.

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• Atomic spectra
• Electromagnetic transitions
• Nuclear charge distribution
• Nuclear radii
• Photonuclear reactions
• Polarization phenomena