Definition of Dose

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Definition of Dose

Dose

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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

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

To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

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

To give anything nauseous to.

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Dose Quotations

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.
Temple Grandin

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Adam Weishaupt

The dose makes the poison.
Paracelsus

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
Clare Boothe Luce

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.
Bootsy Collins

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
John Cameron

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.
Renny Harlin

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.
John Cameron

Dose Translations

dose in Danish is dosis
dose in Dutch is dosis
dose in French is dose
dose in German is Dosis, dosieren
dose in Hungarian is adag
dose in Italian is dose
dose in Spanish is dosis
dose in Swedish is dos, dosis, sats

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