dose
IPA: dˈoʊs
noun
- A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
- The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
- (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
- (figurative, dated) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
- A venereal infection.
- Archaic form of doze. [A light, short sleep or nap.]
verb
- (transitive) To administer a dose to.
- To prescribe a dose.
- To transmit a venereal disease.
- Archaic form of doze. [(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.]
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Examples of "dose" in Sentences
- The cost varies depending on the dose.
- The deliverable dose is ten times higher.
- In full dose, it is narcotic and sedative.
- It is referring to the dose of gunpowder in the box.
- Now there is the issue of the safe and effective dose.
- At high doses, saccharin causes a precipitate in rats.
- Check on the Tuner there a label dose it say NTSC or PAL
- Hope your dose is as quick as mine was - 26 hours and all better.
- In animals the toxic dose and the lethal dose are nearly the same.
- There is a healthy comradeship and competitiveness in equal doses.
- Since I mentioned the title dose it matter at all the format used?
- Reduce both the dose of levomepromazine and the dose of the other drug.
- We will take images during the injection of CCK and continue for about 20 minutes after the dose is complete.
- When multiple doses are contained in a vial, each time another dose is given, a needle is inserted into the rubber stopper that seals the vial.
- Since the additional dose is not harmful and provides extra protection even in first-dose responders, everyone is recommended to get the second dose.
- But there does appear to be a what they call a dose linkage, meaning the more you take, the higher likelihood you may have some of these other problems, Heidi.
- For example, Flovent inhalers come with 120 "actuations," or puffs of medicine, because the recommended dose is two puffs twice a day, which equals four puffs a day total.
- Your NP will be available to help you on a daily basis to navigate insulin dose changes, reach developmental goals with your child, and custom work special social situations.
- On this first morning he put aside his newspapers -- one an old established Tory journal, with all the local and county news, which was the most interesting to him; the other the _Morning Chronicle_, which he called his dose of bitters, and which called out many a strong expression and tolerably pungent oath.