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Dosage   Listen
noun
Dosage  n.  
1.
(Med.) The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.
2.
The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.
3.
Same as dose 1; as, 200 mg q.i.d.
4.
The quantity of a medicine or other substance given to an animal, expressed as a quantity per body weight; as, use a dosage of 10 milligrams per kilogram
5.
The quantity of radiation given to or absorbed by an object; as, a maximum dosage of 1 mrad per day is allowed.
Synonyms: dose.





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"Dosage" Quotes from Famous Books



... herein contains the exact amount of the necessary constituents, and the harmonious system of dosage which I have worked out, consists of reducing every compound dosage to one gram, which weight is equal to about one quarter teaspoonful of the regular preparation, made lighter and fluffier through ...
— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann
... thirtieth dilution it has been so reduced in quantity that it cannot be weighed, measured, or recognized as being present in the solution at all by any means known to chemists. It is but just to modern followers of homoeopathy to say that while most of them advocate small dosage, they do not necessarily follow the teachings of Hahnemann in this respect, believing that the theory of the dose "has nothing more to do with the original law of cure than the psora (itch) theory has; and that it was one of the later creations ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... and I felt myself justified in engaging some proprietors and the association of our southern railroads to repeat the experiments on a large scale the following year, recommending them, however, to use arsenic in a solid form as offering an easy and certain dosage. This extensive prophylactic experiment began in 1881, and acquired constantly increasing proportions in 1882 and 1883, which have become still larger this year. An experiment of this kind is not easy to conduct in the beginning. The name, arsenic, frightens ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various


Words linked to "Dosage" :   tablet, medicinal drug, booster shot, lethal dose, medicine, draft, recall dose, medicament, dose, indefinite quantity, tab, medication, booster, pill, draught, lozenge, hit


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