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Dose Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dose? [n] a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [n] the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time [v] administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [v] treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Dose: dosage \| drug Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dose: acquired syphilis \| administer \| amount \| anoint \| apply \| bag \| balanitis gangrenosa \| bang \| batch \| bestow \| booster \| booster dose \| booster shot \| budget \| bunch \| cerebral tabes \| chancre \| chancroid \| chunk \| clap \| claps \| climatic bubo \| clutch \| congenital syphilis \| constitutional syphilis \| count \| deal \| deck \| dispense \| dope \| dosage \| dose of clap \| dose with \| draft \| dram \| dropping \| drug \| drug packet \| embrocate \| enforce upon \| fifth venereal disease \| fix \| force \| force upon \| French disease \| general paresis \| give \| gob \| gonorrhea \| granuloma inguinale \| granuloma venereum \| great pox \| group \| hard chancre \| heap \| hit \| hunk \| injection \| large amount \| latent syphilis \| lay on \| locomotor ataxia \| lot \| mainlining \| measure \| medicate \| mess \| mete out to \| morbus Gallicus \| narcotic shot \| nip \| number \| oil \| overdose \| pack \| paralytic dementia \| parcel \| paresis \| part \| popping \| portion \| potion \| pox \| prescribe \| prescribe for \| pudendal ulcer \| put on \| put upon \| quantity \| ration \| salve \| shot \| simple chancre \| skin-popping \| slug \| small amount \| social disease \| soft chancre \| Spanish pox \| sum \| syph \| syphilis \| syphilitic meningoencephalitis \| tabes \| tabes dorsales \| tertiary syphilis \| tropical bubo \| VD \| venereal disease See Also \| anaesthetise \| anaesthetize \| anesthetise \| anesthetize \| booster \| booster dose \| booster shot \| dope \| dope up \| draft \| draught \| hit \| indefinite quantity \| lethal dose \| lozenge \| medicament \| medicate \| medication \| medicinal drug \| medicine \| medicine \| narcotise \| narcotize \| o.d. \| overdose \| pill \| poison \| process \| put out \| put to sleep \| put under \| recall dose \| tablet \| treat Dose In Webster's Dictionary \Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose, fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See {Date} point of time.] 1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. 2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. 3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. -- W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. -- South. \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {dosing}.] [Cf. F. doser. See {Dose}, n.] 1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses. 2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, ``secundum artem.'' -- South 3. To give anything nauseous to.

Dose Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dose?

[n] a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
[n] the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
[v] administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
[v] treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dose: dosage | drug

Dose In Webster's Dictionary

\Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose,
fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See {Date}
point of time.]
1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken,
   at one time.

2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take,
   or as falls to one to receive.

3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a
   disagreeable portion thrust upon one.

         I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not
         by violent doses.                     -- W. Irving.

         I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give
         him, he shall readily take it down.   -- South.


\Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{dosing}.] [Cf. F. doser. See {Dose}, n.]
1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the
   patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give
   potions to, constantly and without need.

         A self-opinioned physician, worse than his
         distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him,
         ``secundum artem.''                   -- South

3. To give anything nauseous to.

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