Definition of Doses. Meaning of Doses. Synonyms of Doses

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Definition of Doses

Dose
Dose 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
Dose 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.

Meaning of Doses from wikipedia

- Look up Dose, dose, dosage, or dosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dose or Dosage may refer to: Dose (Gov't Mule album), 1998 Dose (Latin Playboys...
- exposure (or doses) to a stimulus or stressor (usually a chemical) after a certain exposure time. Dose–response relationships can be described by dose–response...
- case of inanimate objects the word dosing is typical. The term dose titration, referring to stepwise adjustment of doses until a desired level of effect...
- energy doses. This takes into account the contributions of the varying biological effect of different radiation types. The concept of equivalent dose was...
- Dosage forms (also called unit doses) are pharmaceutical drug products presented in a specific form for use. They contain a mixture of active ingredients...
- syndrome occurring at doses that exceed 50 Gy. The cells that are most affected are generally those that are rapidly dividing. At high doses, this causes DNA...
- A dose-ranging study is a clinical trial where different doses of an agent (e.g. a drug) are tested against each other to establish which dose works best...
- In external beam Radiotherapy, transverse and longitudinal dose measurements are taken by a radiation detector in order to characterise the radiation beams...
- many drugs, severe toxicities in humans occur at sublethal doses, which limit their maximum dose. A higher safety-based therapeutic index is preferable instead...
- teicoplanin, voriconazole, procainamide and fulvestrant. One or series of doses that may be given at the onset of therapy with the aim of achieving the...