bolus
Pharmacology, Veterinary Medicine. a round mass of medicinal material, larger than an ordinary pill. Abbreviation: bol.
a soft, roundish mass or lump, especially of chewed food.
Origin of bolus
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How to use bolus in a sentence
Mahbub stuffed himself with great boluses of spiced mutton fried in fat with cabbage and golden-brown onions.
Kim | Rudyard KiplingYou take one of these boluses just before each meal and one before going to bed.
Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions | Slason ThompsonWe want children to grow into knowledge, not to swallow numberless facts made up into boluses.
On one occasion Akenside ordered an unfortunate male patient of St. Thomas's to take boluses of bark.
A Book about Doctors | John Cordy JeaffresonGroenvelt prescribed two scruples of camphor in two boluses.
British Dictionary definitions for bolus
/ (ˈbəʊləs) /
a small round soft mass, esp of chewed food
an intravenous injection of a single dose of a drug over a short period
obsolete a large pill or tablet used in veterinary and clinical medicine
another word for bole 2
Origin of bolus
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