Definition of dose Dose
/dowˈs/ - [dows] - dose
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NounPlural: doses |
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| dose - a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | ||
| dosage | ||
| medicament, medicinal drug, medication, medicine the act of treating with medicines or remedies | ||
| booster dose, booster shot, recall dose, booster an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective | ||
| draught, draft the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | ||
| hit (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" | ||
| lethal dose the size dose that will cause death | ||
| dose - the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | ||
| dosage | ||
| indefinite quantity an estimated quantity | ||
| dose - a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact | ||
| venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease, STD | ||
| contagious disease, contagion any disease easily transmitted by contact | ||
| genital herpes, herpes genitalis an infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact; marked by recurrent attacks of painful eruptions on the skin and mucous membranes of the genital area | ||
| gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | ||
| granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum a venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region | ||
| lues, lues venerea, syph, syphilis, pox a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | ||
| lgv, lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphopathia venereum infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium; transmitted by sexual contact; characterized by genital lesions and swelling of lymph nodes in the groin | ||
| dose - street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | ||
| acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen | ||
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| dose - treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint" | ||
| process, treat subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill" | ||
| dose - administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" | ||
| drug | ||
| medicine, medicate treat medicinally, treat with medicine | ||
| practice of medicine, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" | ||
| anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put under, put out administer an anesthetic drug to; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"; "anesthetize the gum before extracting the teeth" | ||
| dope up, dope give a narcotic to; "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race" | ||
| o.d., overdose dose too heavily; "The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room" | ||
| narcotise, narcotize administer narcotics to | ||
| poison administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- dose (n.)
The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. - dose (n.)
A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. - dose (n.)
Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. - dose (n.)
To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses. - dose (n.)
To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. - dose (n.)
To give anything nauseous to.
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dose
The amount of test substance administered. Dose is expressed as weight of test substance (g, mg) per unit weight of test animal (e.g., mg/kg), or as weight of food or drinking water.\n(Source: LEE) -
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A powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid.
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