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dose

  [dohs] noun, verb, dosed, dos⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
2. a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, esp. of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
3. an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
4. Physics.
a. Also called absorbed dose. the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, esp. living tissue: measured in gray or rad.
b. exposure dose.
5. Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.
–verb (used with object)
6. to administer in or apportion for doses.
7. to give a dose of medicine to.
8. to add sugar to (champagne) during production.
–verb (used without object)
9. to take a dose of medicine.
Origin:
1590–1600; earlier dos < LL dosis < Gk dósis a giving

Related forms:
doser, noun
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exposure dose

 
–noun Physics.
a measure of radiation based on the ability to produce ionization: expressed in roentgens.
Also called dose.
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dose   (dōs)   
n.  
    1. A specified quantity of a therapeutic agent, such as a drug or medicine, prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals.
    2. The amount of radiation administered as therapy to a given site.
  2. An ingredient added, especially to wine, to impart flavor or strength.
  3. An amount, especially of something unpleasant, to which one is subjected: a dose of hard luck.
  4. Slang A venereal infection.
tr.v.   dosed, dos·ing, dos·es
  1. To give (someone) a dose, as of medicine.
  2. To give or prescribe (medicine) in specified amounts.

[French, from Late Latin dosis, from Greek, something given, from didonai, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]
dos'er n.
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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\, 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.
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Language Translation for : dose
Spanish: dosis,
German: die Dosis,
Japanese: 服用量
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dose 
1600, from M.Fr. dose, from L.L. dosis, from Gk. dosis "a portion prescribed," lit. "a giving," used by Galen and other Gk. physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from didonai "to give" (see date (1)). Slang meaning "venereal disease" is from 1914.
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Main Entry: 1dose
Pronunciation: 'dOs
Function: noun
1 a : the measured quantity of a therapeutic agent to be taken at one time b : the quantity of radiation administered or absorbed
2 : a gonorrheal infection

Main Entry: 2dose
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: dosed; dos·ing
transitive senses
1 : to divide (as a medicine)into doses
2 : to give a dose to; especially : to give medicine to
3 : to treat with an application or agent dose intransitivesenses
: to take medicine dosing but he gets worse>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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dose (dōs)
n.
Abbr. D.

  1. A specified quantity of a therapeutic agent, such as a drug, prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals.
  2. The amount of radiation administered as therapy to a given site.
v. dosed, dos·ing, dos·es
  1. To give or prescribe something, such as medicine, in specified amounts.
  2. To give someone a dose, as of medicine.

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